A James Cook University scientist is part of an international team that’s used new ‘big data’ analysis to achieve a major advance in understanding neurological disorders su... Read more
A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to tackle longstanding questions about plant diversity and evolution and forecast how pl... Read more
New Berkeley Lab algorithm allows biologists to harness the capabilities of massively parallel supercomputers to make sense of a genomic ‘data deluge’ Did you know that the tools used for an... Read more
Interdisciplinary team cracks code to produce Mother Nature’s dictionary of atomic structures It may not be as catchy as chains and weak links, but physicists and engineers know “a material... Read more
Researchers at Columbia University, Princeton and Harvard University have developed a new approach for analyzing big data that can drastically improve the ability to make accurate prediction... Read more
Researchers at Princeton, Columbia and Harvard have created a new method to analyze big data that better predicts outcomes in health care, politics and other fields. The study appears this w... Read more
An international team of researchers has developed a website at d-place.org to help answer long-standing questions about the forces that shaped human cultural diversity. D-PLACE – the Databa... Read more
Helping computers learn to tackle big-data problems outside their comfort zones Imagine combing through thousands of mugshots desperately looking for a match. If time is of the essence, the... Read more
System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human teams Big-data analysis consists of searching for buried patterns that have some kind of predictive power. B... Read more
New technologies and big data are revolutionizing how we track and protect threatened species. The challenge is how to use all this new information most wisely. Scientists estimate that we a... Read more
FREQUENT visitors to the Hustler Club, a gentlemen’s entertainment venue in New York, could not have known that they would become part of a debate about anonymity in the era of “big data”. B... Read more
An international project aims to enable the next great scientific advances in global marine research by making marine data sets more easily accessible to researchers worldwide Currently diff... Read more
With Apple’s launch of new health tracking tools for the iPhone and medical researchers’ forays into Facebook to recruit clinical trial volunteers, Web and mobile apps are increa... Read more
The technology world is looking at ways to make everything more efficient. The question is, will this be good for the many, or the mighty few? Earlier this month, General Electric announced... Read more
