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Crowdsourcing with Mobile Apps Brings ‘Big Data’ To Psychological Research

A fast-paced game app where players pretend they are baggage screening officers operating airport x-ray

‘Big Data’ Takes Root in the World of Plant Research

Botanists at Trinity College Dublin have launched a database with information that documents significant ‘life

Located adjacent to NREL's high performance computing data center, the ESIF Insight Center uses advanced visualization technology to provide on-site and remote viewing of experimental data, high-resolution visual imagery, and large-scale simulation data. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL
NREL Supercomputer Tackles Grid Challenges to Balance Renewables

“Big data” is playing an increasingly big role in the renewable energy industry and the

A simple solution for big data

A SISSA algorithm published in Science simplifies the categorization of data Experts use the expression

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Big data technique improves monitoring of kidney transplant patients

A new data analysis technique radically improves monitoring of kidney patients, according to a University

This image shows all countries classified as "Food Insecure" by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, between 2003 and 2005. more than 5% of the people have insufficient food more than 15% of the people have insufficient food more than 25% of the people have insufficient food more than 35% of the people have insufficient food more than 50% of the people have insufficient food (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Can big data crunching help feed the world?

The analysis of large volumes of data collected from fields, warehouses, trucks – and even

New 5D Method to Understand Big Data

Florida Atlantic University received a U.S. patent for a new method to display large amounts

Managing the data deluge through new software

Unprecedented torrents of data flood out of research labs on a continual basis, but making

A BOLD Idea for Big Data

Computer networking researchers at Rice University have a new idea for how to handle the

4.4 million jobs will be created worldwide to support Big Data by 2015

IBM Narrows Big Data Skills Gap, Partnering with More than 1,000 Global Universities IBM announced

How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business

Schools and universities are embracing technology that tailors content to students’ abilities and takes teachers

IBM Big Data Improves Dutch Flood Control

IBM has announced the launch of Digital Delta, a breakthrough innovation program that will harness insights

IBM Watson At Your Service: New Watson Breakthrough Transforms How Brands Engage Today’s Connected Consumers

Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM today unveiled the IBM Watson Engagement

Big Data Needs a Big Theory to Go with It

Just as the industrial age produced the laws of thermodynamics, we need universal laws of

Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many

IN the 1960s, mainframe computers posed a significant technological challenge to common notions of privacy.