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Big grant for Big Data: NSF awards $10 million to harness vast quantities of...
Never before has data analysis been so hot. The quest to capture the massive amounts of data being produced in our world — and thus unveil answers to some of society's most vexing problems — has gotten...
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UC Berkeley engineers will conduct their inaugural field test of the Floating Sensor Network project on Wednesday, May 9, in Walnut Grove, Calif. They developed floating sensors that can be rapidly...
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Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow
A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River on May 9, in a field test organized by UC Berkeley engineers. The devices, equipped with GPS-enabled smartphones, demonstrated the...
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School of Information announces first online Master of Information and Data...
The School of Information's new online degree program addresses the nation's "dramatically growing need for well-trained big-data professionals."
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Conference explores role of open data in democracy
A special conference will explore role of open data in democracy, looking at accountability and citizen participation.
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In baseball, data affects the fan base, too
"Moneyball" made famous the Oakland A’s use of data to improve their on-field performance. But as School of Information PhD student Andy Brooks writes, data science is being used increasingly to affect...
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Terry Speed awarded prize for fighting cancer with statistics
Terry Speed, emeritus professor of statistics, has been awarded the 2013 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his contribution to making sense of genomics and related technologies. Speed is among...
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Need answers about Berkeley? New data tool has lots of them
Want to know how many people work at Berkeley? Or which students get financial aid? Have other questions about campus operations? A new online tool called Cal Answers can help, and it's open to...
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New data science institute to help scholars harness ‘big data’
The Moore and Sloan Foundations announced on Nov. 12 a new data science initiative to advance data-driven scholarship in the social and physical sciences. Their five-year, $37.8 million grant will be...
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First Science for Solutions Award goes to a new professor exploring answers...
Solomon Hsiang's deep curiosity about the intersection of the environment, economics and public policy and answers to the serious problems emerging in that realm has netted him a brand new prize.
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Big turnout for launch of big-data center
A throng turned out for Thursday's high-spirited launch of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Designed to help researchers across the disciplines harness data in order to spur discoveries and...
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Big Data workshop to broaden conversation on privacy, values and government
A live-streamed workshop headlined by White House adviser John Podesto will explore privacy issues in the context of increased digital information and computing power.
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At Berkeley, experts mine questions of Big Data, power and privacy
Capped by a keynote from Obama adviser John Podesta, a daylong workshop brought together the worlds of government, business, the law and academia for what Berkeley's Deirdre Mulligan called “a frank...
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Tapping real-time financial data can improve economic policymaking
Measuring the nation's economic health has long been a slow, costly and imprecise exercise. Now, researchers at UC Berkeley have helped develop a new way to measure real-time consumer behavior.
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Scientists enlist big data to guide conservation efforts
UC Berkeley's Brent Mishler and Australian colleagues have created a model of biodiversity that takes into account both the number and distribution of species and their evolutionary relationships in...
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Berkeley to host international neuroscience database to speed brain discoveries
UC Berkeley, a partner in "Neurodata Without Borders," will host a neuroscience database to make the digital information more usable and accessible and accelerate the pace of discoveries about the...
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