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Tag: big data

Big data refers to a collection of data sets so large and complex that that they are difficult to process using available database management tools or traditional data processing applications. WID researchers are making transformative contributions to the mathematical and theoretical underpinnings of tools for analyzing massive data sets.

Big data is an important component of WID’s Data Science Hub.

Deciphering Gene Regulatory Networks
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Deciphering Gene Regulatory Networks

January 5, 2017 July 22, 2021  -omics, big data, complex biological systems, epigenetics, machine learning, modeling

Systems Biology researcher Sushmita Roy is leading an effort putting computational methods to work characterizing the gene regulatory networks responsible for cell differentiation.

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Tools for Discovery: Karen Schloss
Tools for Discovery

Tools for Discovery: Karen Schloss

August 4, 2016 December 22, 2017  big data, complex biological systems, creativity, psychology, software, visualization

Tools for Discovery is a regular profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.

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Data Management in the Lab: An Interview with Allison Langham

August 4, 2016 August 10, 2020  big data

Allison Langham, graduate student in SLIS is interviewed by Research Data Services about curating Yin Lab data.

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Big Data: Madison visionaries turn tiny pieces of data into big ideas

July 13, 2016 August 10, 2020  big data, machine learning

The big data phenomenon also begun to take hold in and around the city, from institutions like state and city government to the health care industry.

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Finding Meaning in Big Data
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Finding Meaning in Big Data

March 24, 2016 March 9, 2020  big data, machine learning

Discovery fellows Rebecca Willett and Rob Nowak are creating algorithms to make sense of big data and help machines learn.

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The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs
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The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs

February 20, 2016 August 30, 2017  big data, modeling, optimization

Professor Thomas Rutherford, WID Optimization, and colleagues used numerical models to examine whether the threat of carbon tariffs might lower the cost of reductions in world carbon emissions in a paper published in the February issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

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High-Content Analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene-Edited Human Embryonic Stem Cells
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High-Content Analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene-Edited Human Embryonic Stem Cells

January 19, 2016 October 3, 2019  big data, gene editing, tissue engineering

Kris Saha and colleagues from the BIONATES Theme detail a new approach that can refine gene editing in this month’s issue of Stem Cell Reports.

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Alleles in Allegro: Accelerating the Pace with HCA
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Alleles in Allegro: Accelerating the Pace with HCA

January 7, 2016 May 21, 2021  big data, gene editing, tissue engineering

Kris Saha, Assistant Professor in the BIONATES theme, is featured in a Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News article for his work with High Content Analysis.

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“Hot Hands” in Basketball Are Real

October 26, 2015 August 10, 2020  big data

Jordan Ellenberg slam dunks the theory for Slate Magazine.

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High-throughput computing, HIV and the mystery of ‘elite controllers’

October 25, 2015 August 10, 2020  big data, software

Every year, high-throughput computing (HTC) technologies pioneered by computer scientist Miron Livny power the scientific discovery of researchers at UW-Madison and around the globe.

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Digging into a Biological Tool Patent
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Digging into a Biological Tool Patent

August 27, 2015 October 5, 2018  big data, complex biological systems

Patent secured by the Systems Biology Theme members enhances single cell research.

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Celebrate Summer and Raise Your App…Um…Glass!
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Celebrate Summer and Raise Your App…Um…Glass!

July 1, 2015 September 20, 2023  big data, creativity, machine learning, software, visualization

With the aid of entrepreneur Joe Sheahan ’04, Discovery Fellow Rob Nowak, ’90, MS’91, PhD’95 and Kevin Jamieson, PhD ’15 poured their thought experiment into the iPhone marketplace.

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Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes
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Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes

June 4, 2015 February 24, 2020  big data, health care, machine learning, modeling, precision medicine

David Page tackles relational databases and algorithms to predict and improve patient health.

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Catalyzing UW-Madison’s neuroengineering community

June 3, 2015 August 10, 2020  big data, machine learning

Discovery Fellow Rebecca Willett co-organizes first ever UW-Madison Neuroimaging, Computational Neuroscience, and Neuroengineering Workshop

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Digging Into Sandpile Theory
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Digging Into Sandpile Theory

April 2, 2015 August 10, 2020  big data

Discovery Fellow, Jordan Ellenberg discusses the abelian sandpile model in the April 2nd edition of Nautilus Magazine.

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The Natural Order and Divine Law of Optimization
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The Natural Order and Divine Law of Optimization

March 27, 2015 October 5, 2018  -omics, big data, health care, optimization

Michael Ferris and Stephen Wright, principal investigators in the WID Optimization Theme comment on New York Times Magazine article “A Sucker is Optimized Every Minute”.

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UW-Madison Researchers Sift and Winnow Data Faster with Advanced Computing Initiative
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UW-Madison Researchers Sift and Winnow Data Faster with Advanced Computing Initiative

March 19, 2015 October 3, 2022  big data, complex biological systems, outreach, software

The Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) links researchers and computing resources to maximize productivity.

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Researchers Search for New Ways to Balance Big Data and Privacy
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Researchers Search for New Ways to Balance Big Data and Privacy

December 5, 2014 September 5, 2017  big data, ethics, health care, machine learning, optimization

How can researchers extract useful information from patient data to develop life-saving treatments while making sure records stay private and protected? A WID collaboration looks for an answer.

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Jordan Ellenberg: “Data is Powerful, but it’s not Magic”
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Jordan Ellenberg: “Data is Powerful, but it’s not Magic”

October 27, 2014 October 5, 2018  big data

How do you parse insight from big data? What does it mean for business and research? Jordan Ellenberg weighs in.

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Looking to Space to Map Earthly Conflict
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Looking to Space to Map Earthly Conflict

October 10, 2014 October 5, 2018  big data, health care

Now at NASA, WID alumnus Jamon Van Den Hoek takes a bird’s eye view to understand the causes and impact of social conflict on society and the environment.

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Students Power Up in Classroom with Biofuels Video Game
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Students Power Up in Classroom with Biofuels Video Game

October 2, 2014 July 25, 2022  big data, education, software, soil science

Students wrestle with the sustainability challenges of making real-world decisions about biofuel agriculture while playing an educational video game developed by WID researchers.

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Tools for Discovery: Sreedevi Nair
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Tools for Discovery: Sreedevi Nair

September 5, 2014 March 9, 2020  big data, creativity

WID Frontier Fellow Sreedevi Nair examines U.S. exoneration cases and searches for patterns to better understand the math behind false convictions.

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Harvesting the Power of Big Data in Agriculture
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Harvesting the Power of Big Data in Agriculture

June 9, 2014 April 2, 2019  -omics, big data, modeling, optimization, soil science, tissue engineering

Harvesting data and harvesting crops? There’s an app for that.

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A World of Math: WID Researcher Jordan Ellenberg on “How Not To Be Wrong”
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A World of Math: WID Researcher Jordan Ellenberg on “How Not To Be Wrong”

May 29, 2014 September 5, 2017  big data, optimization

Math’s everywhere — at least that’s the message from Discovery Fellow Jordan Ellenberg in his new book “How Not To Be Wrong.” Read a conversation with him on math’s impact on our lives, from science to religion.

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WID and New York Hall of Science Team Collects Museum Data to Drive Learning and Collaboration Research
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WID and New York Hall of Science Team Collects Museum Data to Drive Learning and Collaboration Research

May 28, 2014 June 7, 2019  big data

WID and the New York Hall of Science team up to collect data on learning and games.

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