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Summer of Data Science Fellowship
“Civic hacking” has become a popular way for people skilled in programming and data crunching to give back to their community. Through organized Hack-a-thons or... [read more] - Posted on March 19, 2013 @ 9:47 am
Compiler 3/15/13: Bloomberg Win, Obama Visit
SMARTDATA PLATFORM GETS BLOOMBERG NOD A few weeks ago, we urged readers to vote in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge for the City of Chicago’s entry, a... [read more] - Posted on March 15, 2013 @ 10:11 am
Research Data Management for the 99%
Big science projects can afford big cyberinfrastructure. For example, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva generates 15 petabytes of data a year, but also boasts a... [read more] - Posted on March 13, 2013 @ 12:24 pm
Our Invisible Neighbors: Rick Stevens @ TEDxNaperville
“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.” Leonardo da Vinci never gave a TED talk, but if he did, that quote from... [read more] - Posted on March 7, 2013 @ 10:29 am