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Balzano wins NSF CAREER award for research on machine learning and big data involving physical, biological and social phenomena

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 project, called “Robust, Interpretable, and Efficient Unsupervised Learning with K-set Clustering,” is expected to have broad applicability in data science. Modern machine learning techniques aim ...

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U-M, MIDAS researchers supported by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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 shared, open reference atlas of all cells in the healthy human body as a resource for studies of health and disease. The project is funding ...

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Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) Big Data Summer Camp, May 14-18

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 acquired the (misleading) title of “big data.” Within a few years, a standard part of graduate training in the social sciences will include a hefty ...

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MDST – NFL Free Agency Value Prediction Competition Kick-Off – Nov. 9, 6pm

In this competition, student teams at the University of Michigan will use historical free agent data to predict the value of new contracts signed in the 2018 free agency period. These predictions will be evaluated against the actual contracts as they are signed. This competition is organized by the Michigan Data Science Team (MDST), in ...

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U-M partners with Cavium on Big Data computing platform

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 U-M researchers. The $3.5 million ThunderX computing cluster will enable U-M researchers to, for example, process massive amounts of data generated by remote sensors in ...

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HV Jagadish contributes to Big Data magazine article on diversity

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 to a special edition of Big Data magazine. Big Data is published by phys.org. Jagadish co-authored the piece, titled “Diversity in Big Data, a Review,” ...

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Workshop co-chaired by MIDAS co-director Prof. Hero releases proceedings on inference in big data

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 by Alfred Hero, MIDAS co-director and the John H Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The report can be downloaded from ...

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Video available: Gary King, Harvard University: “Big Data is Not About The Data!”

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 part of the MIDAS Seminar Series. For a schedule of upcoming MIDAS Seminars, visit the seminar webpage.

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Transportation Research Board symposium on transformational technologies — Oct. 31-Nov. 1, Detroit

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine is sponsoring the “Partners in Research Symposium: Transformational Technologies” on October 31-November 1, 2016, in Detroit, Michigan. Registration is open and Patron opportunities are available. Additional details can be found under the “Program” tab in the symposium website. New technologies have the potential ...