LEXINGTON, Ky., March 18, 2020 — A University of Kentucky scientist is a part of a national research project that will analyze big data to develop new risk prediction tools for a natural disaster or catastrophic event.
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Jan 10, 2020 |
For months, Australia has been ravaged by bushfires. These massive fires, fueled by lengthy droughts and high temperatures, have caught the world’s attention as lives have been lost and entire towns have been evacuated. Read more…
Dec 18, 2019 |
At the beginning of the year, we set out 10 big data trends to watch in 2019. We correctly called some of what unfolded, including a renewed focus on data management and continued rise of Kubernetes (that wasn’t hard to see). Read more…
May 1, 2019 |
It should come as no surprise that demand for folks with data science expertise exceeds supply. In fact, according to some McKinsey, there are only half as many qualified data scientists as needed. Read more…
Feb 13, 2019 |
As we look forward into 2019, a select group of leaders in Big Data have stepped ahead of the rest. In this fourth annual People to Watch feature, we’re offering our readers a look at some of the best and brightest minds in Big Data whose hard work, dedication, and contributions reach far beyond analytics, and are shaping the direction that technology is taking us as a people. Read more…
Mar 12, 2018 |
Elastic ostensibly is best known as the vendor behind Elasticsearch, the scalable Lucene-based search engine that’s among the most popular open source projects on the Web. But Elastic has become so much more than that over the years, and that progress was on full display during the company’s recent Elasticon conference. Read more…
News In Brief
Mar 24, 2020 |
The foot soldiers in the battle against COVID-19 are increasingly relying on location data to track resources and stem the spread of the virus, often one county at a time. Read more…
Jan 27, 2020 |
A new, granular search engine released by Google Research indexes nearly 25 million web-based data sets, allowing users to filter searches based on data type, location and terms of usage. Read more…
Nov 1, 2019 |
With climate change accelerating and the Amazon burning hotter than it has in years due to rampant deforestation, conservationists are racing to find creative ways to apply technology to protect the Earth’s rainforests. Read more…
Oct 31, 2019 |
From elephants and rhinos to sea turtles and lemurs, poaching is quickly driving many endangered species to the brink of extinction. Often, governments and activists struggle to effectively monitor vast expanses of land for handfuls of poachers who travel at night. Read more…
Oct 18, 2019 |
The Amazon is burning. “Earth’s lungs” have been ablaze throughout 2019, and the dramatic extent of the fires has caught the world’s attention by storm. Still, many are left wondering what is to blame – and what can be done. Read more…
This Just In
Mar 26, 2020 |
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., REDMOND, Wash., URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill., and BERKLEY, Calif., March 26, 2020 – C3.ai, Microsoft Corporation, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC announced two major initiatives: Read more…
Mar 25, 2020 |
NEW YORK, March 25, 2020 — ResoluteAI, the Connect to Discovercompany, today announced the addition of a News dataset to their Foundation search platform for scientific content. Read more…
Mar 18, 2020 |
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Mar 10, 2020 |
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 10, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $40 million over three years for new research in data, artificial intelligence and machine learning to address the challenges of producing and managing data at DOE scientific user facilities. Read more…
Feb 21, 2020 |
BOSTON, Feb. 21, 2020 — Data science has an image problem—and it’s helping to fuel a critical lack of diversity. Almost 50% of female STEM students perceive data science to be overly theoretical and low impact. Read more…
