News
University of Miami officials officially launched the Miami Affordability Project, or “MAP”, an interactive online tool that provides rich data about affordable housing and development. In a meeting at The Beacon Council, more than 100 community officials, executives, and local media turned out for the event Read more “UM Launches “MAP” Digital Tool for Affordable Housing Needs”
Publications
A finite dynamical system is a system consisting of some finite number of objects that take upon a value from some domain as a state, in which after initialization the states of the objects are updated based upon the states of the other objects and themselves according to a certain update schedule. Read more “Computational Complexity Studies of Synchronous Boolean Finite Dynamical Systems”
News - Archived
The new Visualization Laboratory on the 3rd floor of the Ungar Building is still under construction, but the 3D display is up and working. This new tool will transform understanding through immersion (scale), stereoscopy (depth perception), and interactivity (tracking). Stay tuned for further updates on completion. IDSC is “Building a Better U”. Read more “Viz Lab 3D Display is Working!”
News - Archived
The Institute for Data Science and Computing participated in 3 presentations at the cutting-edge technology and innovation event eMerge Americas held on May 1-5, 2015, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Publications
This paper presents a rule based approach to extracting relations from unstructured music text sources. The proposed approach identifies and disambiguates musical entities in text, such as songs, bands, persons, albums and music genres. Candidate relations are then obtained by traversing the dependency parsing tree of each sentence in the text with at least two identified entities. Read more “A Rule-Based Approach to Extracting Relations from Music Tidbits”
News - Archived
We’re excited to announce that construction on the new Visualization Laboratory is well underway at the IDSC location in the Arthur A. Ungar Building on the Coral Gables campus. Read more “Construction Begins on New Viz Lab”
Publications
Library data are often hard to analyze because these data come from unconnected sources, and the data sets can be very large. Furthermore, the desire to protect user privacy has prevented the retention of data that could be used to correlate library data to non-library data. The research team used data mining to determine library use patterns and to determine whether library use correlated to students’ grade point average. Read more “Mining Library and University Data to Understand Library Use Patterns”