May 2016 – Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

Nautilus Middle School Visits the Viz Lab

CCS hosted Nautilus Middle School, the “Home of the Sharks”, an International Baccalaureate World School located on Miami Beach, in the Viz Lab on Friday, May 20th, for a demonstration of the powers of the 2D and 3D walls. Hosted by Giancarlo Espinoza, one of CCS’s exceptional Advanced Computing Systems Administrators, the forty-plus students appeared to enjoy the presentation and asked lots of questions. Read more “Nautilus Middle School Visits the Viz Lab” →

Events - Past

Big Data Lunch & Learn, Friday 5/27/2016

We are in the era of Big Data. Data is being generated by everything around us all the time. The extreme popularity of social media pushes the scale of data even higher in volume, speed and variety. It becomes more and more critical to develop and apply new big data technologies to collect, process, understand data in a super efficient way. New big data systems and analytic algorithms have been developed and deployed extensively in industrial and academic areas. This free Lunch and Learn session (open to UM Faculty, Staff, and Students) will start with an overview of the big data technologies in Hadoop eco-system and the popular tools in big data collection, processing and analysis. It then presents the basics of Hadoop MapReduce, the parallel computing platform which make massive scalability possible. Read more “Big Data Lunch & Learn, Friday 5/27/2016” →

Events - Past

“Big Data Day” Oderzo Italy, Friday 5/20/2016

“Big Data Day: When Science, Society, Technology, and Business face change” was held at Nice, S.p.a., in Oderzo, Italy, on Friday, May 20, 2016. The event was organized by CCS’s own Lead Bioinformatics Scientist Enrico Capobianco, PhD, who also participated, giving a session on Smart Cities. Read more ““Big Data Day” Oderzo Italy, Friday 5/20/2016″ →

News - Archived

EHRs, Digital Biomarkers, and Big Data

With the rise of digital biomarkers, its role in precision medicine has become an important area of interest, something which is destined to continue due to Electronic Health Records (EHR). It’s important to keep in mind the limitations and problems that appear on the horizon. Among these problems are geo-differentiation and ethnic balance, generation of protocols for sharing digital information, and transferability of different record types (structured and non-structured). Read more “EHRs, Digital Biomarkers, and Big Data” →

Events - Past

“Current Issues in Data Mining” Offered Insight

The “Current Issues in Data Mining” Symposium was well attended. The cutting-edge talks well received and Dr. Srini Parthasarthy has shared his presentation. Read more ““Current Issues in Data Mining” Offered Insight” →

pan>May 2016

Nautilus Middle School Visits the Viz Lab

Big Data Lunch & Learn, Friday 5/27/2016

“Big Data Day” Oderzo Italy, Friday 5/20/2016

EHRs, Digital Biomarkers, and Big Data

“Current Issues in Data Mining” Offered Insight