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How Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New Dimensions

By Stephen Ornes
August 19, 2021
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Researchers are turning to the mathematics of higher-order interactions to better model the complex connections within their data.

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A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms

By Rachel Crowell
April 1, 2021
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Rediet Abebe uses the tools of theoretical computer science to understand pressing social problems — and try to fix them.

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The Computer Scientist Who Shrinks Big Data

By Allison Whitten
December 7, 2020
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Jelani Nelson designs clever algorithms that only have to remember slivers of massive data sets. He also teaches kids in Ethiopia how to code.

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Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies

By Liz Kruesi
October 24, 2018
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Mario Jurić is leading the push to get astronomy ready for the torrents of data that are about to flow.

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To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect

By Kevin Hartnett
May 15, 2018
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Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why.

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algorithms

Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data

By Kevin Hartnett
October 24, 2017
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To efficiently analyze a firehose of data, scientists first have to break big numbers into bits.

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Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better

By Esther Landhuis
June 6, 2017
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The computational immunologist Purvesh Khatri embraces messy data as a way to capture the messiness of disease. As a result, he’s making elusive genomic discoveries.

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Awash in Sea of Data, Ecologists Turn to Open Access Tools

By John Rennie
May 24, 2017
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To assess the ocean’s health, ecology’s “rugged individualists” learned to get with the big data program.

Quantized Columns

Big Data’s Mathematical Mysteries

By Ingrid Daubechies
December 3, 2015
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Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why.


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