After an open election among members of the IEEE Visualization and Computer Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC), Professor Claudio Silva of the department of Computer Science and Engineering was elected chair of the organization. The appointment will last for two years. [Click here for full story] Continue reading Professor Claudio Silva Voted Chair in Prestigious IEEE Committee
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released data on the $103 billion in prescription drugs that providers prescribed in 2013 as part of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program. The dataset, containing drug cost information for 36 million patients and 1 million prescribers, will allow consumers, providers, researchers, and other stakeholders to … Continue reading Medicare Releases Detailed Data on Prescription Drug Spending
Google has launched its Government Innovation Labs which will bring together private and public sector leaders to improve how governments approach hard problems. The program will challenge teams to use innovative thinking and tools, such as data visualization and open data solutions, to identify how they can get a better return on investment for new … Continue reading Making Government More Data Savvy
Microsoft has published a new site called “How Old Do I Look” to demonstrate the potential for its machine learning service Azure to spot trends and make predictions. Users can upload a photo to the site and Microsoft’s algorithms will identify the face in the image and estimate the age of the person pictured. Microsoft … Continue reading Machine Learning Can Guess Your Age
New York University’s (NYU) Center for Data Science (CDS) is joining forces with Nvidia in an effort to improve deep learning applications and algorithms for large-scale GPU-accelerated systems. For full article, please see here: NYU & Nvidia. Continue reading NYU & Nvidia Team Up for Multi-GPU Cluster-led Deep Learning Research
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has deployed a website known as HDX, short for the Humanitarian Data Exchange, to help provide key information to relief workers in Nepal. HDX creates a platform for international organizations to collaborate and share data. Initially used by aid workers to fight the Ebola pandemic in … Continue reading Using Data to Help Nepal Aid Workers
Bloomberg Philanthropies, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic initiative, will fund the creation of the What Works Cities Initiative to help cities take advantage of data to influence policymaking. Bloomberg Philanthropies will grant 100 cities with between 100,000 and one million residents a total of $42 million to better collect, analyze, share, and apply data forimproved decision-making. … Continue reading Bloomberg to give $42 million to help cities do more with data
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has partnered with Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the Open Cloud Consortium, a cloud computing infrastructure nonprofit, to help deliver more of the agency’s data to the public. NOAA, which produces 20 terabytes of data per day, created the partnership to provide the public and private sector with more access … Continue reading Tech titans ready their clouds for NOAA weather data
