Text and data mining (TDM) techniques are increasingly used by researchers to explore the tremendous amount of scholarly publications. By automating this type of search, scientists can have an edge over competing teams. Yet, new copyright legislation due to be discussed later on this year in Europe, could hamper their work. Read more [...]
Physicist Alessandro Vespignani is one of the main experts in networks and statistical and numerical simulations. He shares his views in this exclusive podcast in EuroScientist on how the era of Big Data requires scientists to adapt their approach to replicating such data. Specifically, he believes that we have to update the idea of replication, or better, the idea of how to verify or falsify an experiment. Read more [...]
Big Data is becoming a new paradigm of evidence-based decision making, creating new possibilities to build smarter, more resilient and more efficient cities and societies. In this interview, Dirk Helbing, professor of computational social science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, explains how to best utilise information for ourselves and our society, and what pitfalls may lie ahead. Read more [...]
Increasing human ingenuity by making calculation nodes available for all to apply to any set of data is the challenge of the Supernode Foundation. Following this logic, they believe every child could become a rocket scientist. Read more [...]
What do twitter tweets, Higgs bosons and DNA have in common? They are all subject to big data analysis. The term Big Data itself entered into business jargon to describe petabytes of data, generated by computer record, whose sheer volume makes them unsuitable to be analysed by commonly used software tools. Read more [...]
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