by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | Educational, Events
The U-M Transportation Research Institute is hosting a day-long symposium on transportation safety research. Panel discussion topics include advanced human modeling and big data. The keynote speaker is Dr. Grant Baldwin, Ph.D., MPH, Director, Division of Unintentional...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 14, 2017 | Al Hero, Educational, General Interest, Research
The National Academies Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics has released proceedings from its June 2016 workshop titled “Refining the Concept of Scientific Inference When Working with Big Data,” co-chaired by Alfred Hero, MIDAS co-director and the John H...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 10, 2016 | Educational, Events, General Interest
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) hosted Dr. Gary King of Harvard University for a talk titled “Big Data is Not About the Data!” on Friday, Oct. 3 as part of the MIDAS Seminar Series. Video of the talk is now available for viewing online. For...
by U-M MICDE | Dec 8, 2015 | Educational, Events
The convergence of big data and machine learning is giving rise to a new computational social science. Dr. Sandy Pentland, Director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs, will describe some of the insights gained in the areas of collective action,...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 5, 2015 | General Interest, News
A “big data brain trust” has been established by the National Science Foundation to bring together industry, government and academia to accelerate this emerging field and harness it to solve some of society’s toughest problems. The University of Michigan will play a...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 5, 2015 | Educational, Events
The annual Ann Arbor Data Dive is scheduled for Nov. 14 at North Quad, 105 S. State St. According to its website, the Data Dive is about empowering people to use data; connecting expderts and professionals with novices and students; and providing nonprofits and social...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 23, 2015 | News
Slides and video are now available from the kickoff symposium for the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) held on Oct. 6, 2015, in the Rackham Auditorium. U-M speakers included Provost Martha Pollack, Interim Vice President for Research S. Jack Hu, MIDAS...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 13, 2015 | General Interest, News
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) is pleased to announce the first competition for MIDAS Challenge Thrust awards. These awards are intended to stimulate research in key areas identified at the recent symposium and will lay the foundation for future...
by U-M MICDE | Sep 28, 2015 | General Interest, News
Buried in troves of data that scientists have gathered, but not yet analyzed, could be key insights to improving cancer treatment, understanding Alzheimer’s, predicting climate change effects and developing cheaper, clean energy technologies. Those are just a...
by U-M MICDE | Sep 28, 2015 | Educational, Events
Top data scientists from around the country will gather in the Rackham Building on Oct. 6 for a symposium to launch the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), the centerpiece of the university’s recently announced $100 million investment in data science....
