Prof. Laura Balzano received an NSF CAREER award to support research that aims to improve the use of machine learning in big data problems involving elaborate physical, biological, and social phenomena. The…
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Several University of Michigan researchers, including faculty affiliated with MIDAS, recently received support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative under its Human Cell Atlas project. The project seeks to create a…
Social and organizational life are increasingly conducted online through electronic media, from emails to Twitter feed to dating sites to GPS phone tracking. The traces these activities leave behind have…
A new partnership between the University of Michigan and Cavium Inc., a San Jose-based provider of semiconductor products, will create a powerful new Big Data computing cluster available to all…
HV Jagadish, a core MIDAS faculty member and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, contributed as a co-author on an article on diversity in big data that appears in…
The National Academies Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics has released proceedings from its June 2016 workshop titled “Refining the Concept of Scientific Inference When Working with Big Data,” co-chaired…
The Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan will host a joint conference, “Big Data: Improving the Scope, Quality, and Accessibility of Financial Data” in Ann Arbor, Michigan. …
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) hosted Dr. Gary King of Harvard University for a talk titled “Big Data is Not About the Data!” on Friday, Oct. 3 as…
XSEDE and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center are presenting a one day Big Data workshop. This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark. U-M is one of several sites around the…
The Digging Into Data Challenge, which aims to address how “big data” changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences, is seeking submissions for its fourth found of…
