Online shoppers typically string together a few words to search for the product they want,…
Data Lakes: Where Big Businesses Dump Their Excess Data, and Hackers Have a Field Day
Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call “big data”. And this…
Natural Language Interface for Data Visualization Debuts at Prestigious IEEE Conference
The ubiquity and sheer volume of data generated today give experts in virtually every domain ample information to track everything from financial trends, disaster evacuation routes, and street traffic, to animal migrations, weather…
Mathematicians Help Improve Efficiency of Data Centers Using Markov Chains
RUDN University mathematicians created a model of maximum efficiency of data centers. It is based on a nontrivial Markov chain. In addition to the obvious practical applications of the results for the…
How Cities Can Leverage Citizen Data While Protecting Privacy
India is on a path with dual — and potentially conflicting — goals related to the use of citizen data. To improve the efficiency their municipal services, many Indian cities have started…
Chasing Storm Data: Machine Learning Looks for Useful Data in U.s. Thunderstorm Reports
Bill Gallus has been known to chase a summer storm or two. But he didn’t have to go after this one. On July 17, 2019, a thunderstorm approached the Iowa State University…
