IDSC Director of Information Design, Data Communication, and Visualization, and author of the book “How Charts Lie”, Dr. Alberto Cairo, was interviewed by NPR’s Marketplace.org on the proliferation of misinformation on the economic impact of the Coronavirus: Read more “How Economic Data Has Been Distorted During Covid-19”
IDSC has developed a first-of-its-kind early-detection platform xsat.idsc.miami.edu for COVID-19 that will enable local residents to self-report symptoms and researchers and decision makers to visualize data and identify hot spots. By tracking social media posts, analyzing public health data, and creating an interactive online dashboard, University of Miami researchers, and others, will have the ability to identify new clusters of COVID-19 cases in real time, rather than days or weeks after an outbreak. Read more “xSAT Outbreak Tracking + Early-Detection Platform Launched”
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill likely affected ecosystem services in the Gulf of Mexico. To test this hypothesis, we configured a “Ecopath with Ecosim” model and quantified the effects of commercial fisheries and particulate organic carbon (POC) sequestration from 2004 to 2014, encompassing DWH. Read more “The Effect of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on two Ecosystem Services in the Northern Gulf of Mexico”
The University Research Informatics Data Environment, or URIDE, is a web-based platform that aggregates and visualizes de-identified data from the UHealth UChart system. With URIDE, clinical research investigators and their teams can easily explore demographics, diagnoses, procedures, vitals, medications, labs, notes, allergies, comorbidities, locations, physicians, and much more. URIDE can also help you design your study, help with feasibility analysis, grant submission, and applications in which population assessments need to be conducted. Read more “WEBINAR How to Use UChart Data through URIDE 8/12/2020”
Ken Goodman and Otávio Bueno have been named Director and Co-Director of Data Ethics and Society for IDSC. “From personal privacy to fake news, legal, ethical, and social concerns permeate the research, teaching, and applications of data science and computing,” said Nick Tsinoremas, IDSC Institute Director, and Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data at the University of Miami. “We are fortunate to engage two distinguished academic leaders in the field of Ethics who will help guide the responsible growth and development of our research.” Read more “IDSC Data Ethics and Society Director and Co-Director Named”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) to host the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS). CIMAS, will bring together the research and educational resources of 11 partner universities to increase scientific understanding of Earth’s oceans and atmosphere within the context of NOAA’s mission. Read more “NOAA names UM to Lead CIMAS Cooperative Institute”
OntoloBridge, a new platform designed to bridge the gap between regular users of controlled scientific vocabularies and the creators of underlying ontologies, has been developed under a collaborative U01 grant by the University of Miami, Stanford University, and Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD). The novel platform is now available through the BioPortal Ontology Repository. Read more “Novel Platform Connects Users and Developers of Scientific Vocabularies”
Major oil spills immensely impact the environment and society. Coastal fishery-dependent communities are especially at risk as their fishing grounds are susceptible to closure because of seafood contamination threat. Read more “Predicting the Impact of Future Oil-Spill Closures on Fishery-Dependent Communities—A Spatially Explicit Approach”
Data specialists at IDSC are collaborating with national consulting firm MDB, Inc. in designing and developing an interactive evidence map displaying the impact of social needs interventions on health outcomes. “Our multidisciplinary UM team will effectively translate scientific findings and data into a visual evidence map to help physicians, researchers, and health insurance systems see patterns that otherwise would not be evident,” said Alberto Cairo, PhD, IDSC Visualization, Data Communication & Information Design Director. Read more “Mapping Social Needs on an Evidence Map”
Visiting Distinguished Professor and IDSC Innovation Officer Yelena Yesha, PhD, is launching a collaborative blockchain project to detect and track fake news by identifying the source in real time. “The coronavirus pandemic has led to an explosion of misinformation, such as ‘miracle cures’ as well as scammers trying to take advantage of people, and others who spread rumors for fun,” said Dr. Yesha. “As information spreads quickly in social media, it is an urgent task to develop methods for preventing the spread of fake news.” Read more “Blockchain Project to Detect and Track Fake News”