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The SAMSI-FODAVA Workshop on Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Massive Data will be held on December 10-12, 2012.
Posted: October 02, 2012
The FODAVA Annual Meeting will immediately follow (Dec 12-13) the SAMSI/FODAVA joint workshop at the same location.
Posted: September 05, 2012
Many of the modern data sets such as text and image data can be represented in high-dimensional vector spaces and have benefited from computational methods that utilize advanced techniques from num
Posted: June 30, 2012

White House Announces BIG DATA Initiative

The alarming rate of growth of data has caught the attention of many in the research sector and in the industry. Now, the government has officially declared their support for research and development in BIG DATA.

On March 29, 2012, the White House held their press release detailing their support for R&D in the BIG DATA field. As stated in their initiative, their commitment of $200 million is their "promise to greatly improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize, and glean discoveries from huge volumes of digital data."

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