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…
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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…
The state-of-the-art of computational modeling and simulation is anything but static. Tremendous progress has been achieved in the ability to model and predict complex behavior in multi-scale, multi-physics systems and…
The Department of Statistics is sponsoring a data mining competition that will be open to all U-M undergraduates. Cash prizes will be awarded: $500/1st place, $300/2nd place, $200/3rd place. Teams and…
The convergence of big data and machine learning is giving rise to a new computational social science. Dr. Sandy Pentland, Director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs, will…
The annual Ann Arbor Data Dive is scheduled for Nov. 14 at North Quad, 105 S. State St. According to its website, the Data Dive is about empowering people to…
A “big data brain trust” has been established by the National Science Foundation to bring together industry, government and academia to accelerate this emerging field and harness it to solve…
