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
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick visits MIT’s SMART Centre in Singapore
Governor’s visit spurs a discussion regarding transportation, ‘Big Data,’ and information technology.
Cameron Kerry joins MIT Media Lab as visiting scholar
Former Commerce Department official will work on privacy issues and ‘Big Data for Public Good’ initiative.
How should we use our intelligence?
MIT event exposes fault lines among high-ranking former government officials on NSA’s data-gathering programs.
New medical operations
At MIT’s ‘Innovations in Health Care’ conference, industry experts discuss how to maintain quality while reining in costs.
MIT Big Data Initiative launches transportation challenge, privacy working group
New efforts aimed at improving the use and management of big data
Improving data management, through entrepreneurship
MIT adjunct professor Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica Systems, and other startups, that have helped improve database management.