HuMNet Lab students win big at MIT Big Data Challenge
Urban transportation expertise gave team the edge to earn first- and second-place prizes in different categories.
Democratizing data visualization
Study examines use of ‘Exhibit’ tools in creating interactive data visualizations.
Upcoming conference puts supply chain management in broad context
Host Yossi Sheffi thinks supply chains change, and are changed by, the world.
MIT, White House co-sponsor workshop on big-data privacy
MIT hosts the first of three conferences on privacy policy
Social physics
Media Lab professor’s new book ties more than a decade’s research into a new theory of information propagation in communities large and small.
Give him the hook: New data shows baseball managers when to replace the starting pitcher
As MIT’s major sports analytics conference begins, novel research provides data-based guidance for big-league skippers.
Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics launches data science challenge in collaboration with Chicago
New annual contest for MIT students to recognize best data analytics and visualization ideas.
Data-Driven: MIT infuses the rise of sports analytics
Follow the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Feb. 28-March 1 in Boston, via social media and webcast. Tickets are sold out.
White House to co-host workshop at MIT on ‘big data’ and privacy
March 3 event convenes academics, representatives of industry, and top government officials to discuss big data and the role of technology in protecting privacy.
New MITx course shares how data has changed healthcare, dating, and baseball
15.071 The Analytics Edge examines real-world examples and teaches analytic approaches.
Storage system for ‘big data’ dramatically speeds access to information
Using multiple nodes allows the same bandwidth and performance from a storage network as far more expensive machines.
MIT Professional Education creates Online X Programs and launches big data course
"Tackling the Challenges of Big Data” is first professional course to be offered online