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Tag: big data
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Nation & World
2 early vaccination surveys worse than worthless thanks to ‘big data paradox,’ analysts say
As governments and health officials navigate pandemic, researchers stress the danger that comes with bad information.
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Real-time data to address real-time problems
A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.
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The legacy of the 2010s
Harvard experts recalling some of the biggest moments of the 2010s.
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Big data targets drug resistance
Harvard Medical School symposium examines the role of big data in fighting drug-resistant microbes.
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Connecting the dots in data sciences
Harvard’s new Data Science Initiative hosted its inaugural event, the first in a series of planned seminars featuring talks by faculty members focusing on new methods of managing and analyzing data and on cutting-edge applications.
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Bringing big data to the farm
Digital technology and big data will power the next big advance in the business of farming, the head of a “digital agriculture” firm told a Harvard audience.
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Even in ‘Hamilton,’ a glimpse of mediocrity
New research by Derek Miller, an assistant professor of English, highlights the starring role of “decidedly average” in the history of art.
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For bigger data, more storage
With big data becoming routine and applications penetrating even areas not traditionally thought of as data-heavy, Harvard is part of a multi-university collaboration designed to better store and provide faster access to the enormous data sets increasingly common in research into genomics, particle physics, and a host of other fields.
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Don’t trust that algorithm
Cathy O’Neil, Ph.D. ’99, talks about her new book “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” and the quiet dangers of big data.
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On top of the flu
A team led by Harvard statistician Samuel Kou has devised a new system for tracking flu outbreaks in real time.
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Big data, massive potential
Across Harvard, programs and researchers are mining big data, vast quantities of computerized information, often revolutionizing their fields in the process.
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Harvard’s Odyssey unlocks big data
Harvard faculty and researchers are using big data to answer society’s most challenging questions, and doing it with the help of FAS Research Computing (FASRC). Founded in 2007, FASRC had one goal: to provide Harvard faculty, students, and staff with leading-edge computational resources.
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For big data, big thinking
A new course on how to handle big data designed by Assistant Statistics Professor Luke Bornn immerses students in a competitive environment, driven by peer learning, to understand how to handle the massive data sets common in real-world problems.
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The promise of ‘big data’
Harvard symposium embraces the goals and challenges of collecting and processing massive amounts of information on key complex issues.
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Map to renewable energy?
Researchers hoping to make the next breakthrough in renewable energy now have plenty of new avenues to explore — Harvard researchers this week released a database of more than 2 million molecules that might be useful in the construction of organic solar cells for the production of renewable energy.
