New grant supports emerging field of massive data analysis and visual analytics
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 06:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Enormous amounts of data are being generated in health care, computational biology, homeland security and other areas, but analyzing these massive and unstructured data sets has proven cumbersome and difficult. An emerging research field known as data and visual analytics is helping sift through such mountains of information to find and put together individual pieces of a picture.