Science 2.0: Google Web Mining Can Help Neuroscientists Analyze Big Data
Sunday, July 27, 2014 - 16:10
in Mathematics & Economics
Facebook, Google and just about everyone except Science 2.0 use global distributed computers to mine your web history and learn everything about you to make generate revenue. Big data is being led by marketing, like many things are, but early adopters who make money at things create tools that everyone can then use, and that will be a big help for Science 2.0 New technologies for monitoring brain activity are generating unprecedented quantities of information. If it can ever be interpreted, that data may hold new insights into how the brain works. To help make sense of cranial Big Data, neuroscientists can now use Thunder, a library of tools developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus. read more