Data Science Brain Trust

Establishing a Brain Trust for Data Science

National Science Foundation | November 2, 2015

The ability to access, analyze and draw insights from massive amounts of data already drives innovation in areas ranging from medicine to manufacturing, leading to greater efficiency and a higher quality of life.
To accelerate this emerging field, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced four awards totaling more than $5 million to establish regional hubs for data science innovation.

Issues the BD Hubs have identified as priorities include:

• new technologies for big data and data-driven discovery, including in healthcare and local health disparities

• management of natural resources and impacts on habitat planning and hazards
• precision agriculture and the food, energy and water nexus
• education and smart and connected communities
• precision medicine
• energy, materials and manufacturing

• finance

The Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs cover all 50 states and include commitments from more than 250 organizations — from universities and cities to foundations and Fortune 500 corporations — with the ability to expand further over time. Courtesy of NSF. Source: http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/11/building-us-big-data-machine

<more at http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/11/establishing-brain-trust-data-science?&cmpid=horizontalcontent; related links: http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/11/building-us-big-data-machine (Building the U.S. Big Data Machine. November 19, 2015) and https://www.bdhub.info/? (Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs. Accelerating the Big Data Innovation Ecosystem)>