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“Big Data in Health” Conference 2017 held in Italy

July 6, 2017July 8, 2020

The “Big Data in Health” Conference was held at the Villa Umbra, in Pila (Perugia, Italy), June 29-30, 2017. The event was sponsored by the University of Perugia and the University of Salerno, and organized by Enrico Capobianco (IDSC Computational Biology & Bioinformatics), Luca Pieroni and Luca Salmasi (Department of Economics, University of Perugia, Italy), Liliana Minelli (Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy), Sergio Pagano and Pierpaolo Cavallo (Departments of Physics and Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Italy). Read more ““Big Data in Health” Conference 2017 held in Italy” →

Publications

A Matlab-Based Signal Processing Toolbox for Musical Vibrato

June 9, 2017July 27, 2023

To assess and manipulate the vibrato in musical sounds, audio engineers either informally listen to the audio or visually inspect waveform envelopes or spectrographic representations. Unfortunately, detailed descriptions of the amplitude and frequency trajectories of harmonic partials are difficult to infer from audio spectrograms, which means quantitative information is limited. Read more “A Matlab-Based Signal Processing Toolbox for Musical Vibrato” →

Publications

Ensemble Modeling Approach Targeting Heterogeneous RNA-Seq Data

June 7, 2017December 29, 2020

By accessing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Dr. Capobianco and his team built the wide-spectrum transcriptome landscape of skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM) from 103 primary tumor samples. They measured the expression levels of protein coding genes and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Read more “Ensemble Modeling Approach Targeting Heterogeneous RNA-Seq Data” →

Publications

Developing a Framework for Digital Objects in the Big…

May 24, 2017December 29, 2020

The volume and diversity of data in biomedical research has been rapidly increasing in recent years. While such data hold significant promise for accelerating discovery, their use entails many challenges including: Read more “Developing a Framework for Digital Objects in the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Commons” →

Community Outreach

CCS Data Scholars Begins 7/5/2017

May 15, 2017June 4, 2020

We are beyond excited to announce that the CCS Data Scholars Summer Data Immersion program has been funded by The Children’s Trust and is launching on July 5, 2017. The proposal was led by our partners at Educate Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization with the mission to provide a path to independence for at-risk, homeless, and foster youth, through education, mentoring, and life-skills programming. Read more “CCS Data Scholars Begins 7/5/2017” →

News - Archived

Gridics and City of Miami Address Zoning Process

May 3, 2017June 5, 2020

Gridics—a Miami-based real estate tech startup—announced a partnership with the City of Miami that will use its Zonar.City software application across planning, zoning, and development functions. Read more “Gridics and City of Miami Address Zoning Process” →

News - Archived

What Happens When Google Turns Artists Loose On Its…

April 27, 2017June 5, 2020

Data journalists work at the crossroads of reportage and visual creativity. They tell stories by shaping information like journalists do, but they communicate through visceral and compelling visuals. The same can be said of data artists, who emphasize the illustrative qualities of visualization over facts and numbers—but communicate stories in much the same way. Read more “What Happens When Google Turns Artists Loose On Its Search Data” →

News - Archived

2016-17 IDSC Fellows present Interdisciplinary Projects

April 27, 2017May 23, 2023

The 2016-2017 IDSC Fellows and their mentors gathered to hear the final presentations on their chosen projects. Presenting first was Michael Durante with his project on “Epigenomic Profiling of Uveal Melanoma”. Read more “2016-17 IDSC Fellows present Interdisciplinary Projects” →

Events - Past

IDSC at eMerge Americas 2017

April 20, 2017June 5, 2020

A record crowd of 13,000+ kicked off eMerge Americas 2017 with featured speaker, Apple co-founder, Silicon Valley icon, and philanthropist Steve Wozniak, affectionately known as ”the Woz”. Other featured speakers were Waze co- founder Uri Levine, Malala Fun co-founder Shiza Shadid, and 500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure. Day one ended with the unlikely duo of financial guru Suze Orman, known for her directness, and Mr. 305 himself, Armando Christian Perez aka ”Pitbull.” Read more “IDSC at eMerge Americas 2017” →

CCS Student Mentors

Get free help from IDSC Student Mentors

April 6, 2017June 5, 2020

Need help with your script? Are you getting error messages that don’t make sense? Do you have data and don’t know where to start? IDSC Student Mentors can help! Read more “Get free help from IDSC Student Mentors” →