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The NFL Joins the Data Revolution in Sports

October 5, 2016October 6, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: The Conversation, 9/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The NFL began placing tracking sensors inside of footballs and shoulder pads during the preseason and will carry this practice into Thursday night games this…

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Southampton to Help Develop Software Which Could Transform Ship Maintenance

September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: University of Southampton, 9/15/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers are planning to develop software that can monitor and gather data on the performance and efficiency of a marine vessel. Through the use of…

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How Big Data and Algorithms Are Slashing the Cost of Fixing Flint’s Water Crisis

September 21, 2016September 23, 2016 by Jonathan Corley

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Published By: The Conversation, 09/08/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Beyond tech companies such as Amazon and Google, big data has a significant effect on science, engineering, and even plumbing. As the government in Flint,…

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Big Pixel Initiative Develops Remote Sensing Analysis to Help Map Global Urbanization

September 16, 2016September 23, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: UC San Diego News Center, 9/14/2016 >> View the Article << Summary An interdisciplinary research team developed a large dataset of 21,030 high-resolution satellite images of India labeled for whether they show built-up areas.…

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A Beauty Contest Was Judged by AI and the Robots Didn’t Like Dark Skin

September 9, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/8/2016 Summary: Beauty.AI developed a set of algorithms to judge photos according to five factors in human standards of beauty; it disproportionately chose photos of white people. The article discusses the potential…

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Inferring Urban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data

September 5, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT News, 8/29/2016 Summary: Researchers are using data on the locations people make calls from to model the movement patterns of Boston commuters; the system may replace or supplement surveys of residents. The article…

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As FBI Warns Election Sites Got Hacked, All Eyes Are on Russia

September 2, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Wired, 8/29/2016 Summary: Hackers have broken into the Illinois and Arizona state boards of elections' records, following hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign in the last couple of months. This…

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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying Their Instagram Photos

August 31, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 8/19/2016 Summary: Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that achieves 70% recall in identifying depressed individuals by characteristics of their (pre-diagnosis) Instagram photo posts. This is a great example of a…

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Only Some of @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets Are Actually Donald Trump

August 26, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Scientific American, 8/18/2016 Summary: Data scientists used post metadata and patterns in post format to show that tweets from @realDonaldTrump come from different people, and sentiment analysis to show that the tweets from Trump…

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Paraplegics Take a Step to Regain Movement

August 17, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Duke Today, 8/10/2016 Summary: Patients using brain-machine interfaces to control robotic prosthetics, along with virtual-reality devices that simulated moving their own limbs, were unexpectedly able to regain some actual control of their own limbs,…

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Safer Air Travel: Existing Navigation Data Can Help Pilots Avoid Turbulence

August 15, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Science Daily, 8/11/2016 Summary: Using standard data already collected by most airplanes, researchers are testing and refining turbulence-modeling algorithms that they believe will improve detection and prediction, so that pilots can avoid trouble spots.…

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Protecting Privacy in Genomic Databases

August 12, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT News, 8/9/2016 Summary: Researchers at MIT and Indiana Univerity are developing differential privacy techniques that add a small amount of random noise to queries on large genetic databases. This means databases can be…

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