Our first data-science essay comes to us from Michael Lesk, a professor at Rutgers University and Chair of the Department of Library and Information Science. The internet breaks business models, and it’s also broken the model for academic research. Everyone exploiting large data files to do research is enthusiastic. The barriers to expanding them throughout...

The following contribution comes to us from Mike Saunders, Director of Digital Media at Kew Gardens, where he oversees their digital platforms. The views expressed below are his own, and not those of Kew Gardens. As the quantity of data available online reaches ever greater volumes, the question of what value can be derived from that data, is increasingly...

The following blog post comes from Eugene Kolker, the Chief Data Officer at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Today marks the beginning of the second Data-Intensive Science Workshop that Eugene has put together, with the support of the National Science Foundation. The post below details a bit more about the event and the issues it hopes to address. We all...

The following post comes to us from Dr. Neil Buckholtz, the Chief of the Dementias Aging Branch for the National Institute on Aging. Below, he tells us more about the Azheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initative, and it’s relation to data science. Background The concept for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) developed in the early 2000’s...