Data-Driven Discovery

Data fuels important decisions at every level of society. The exponential growth and availability of big data presents numerous challenges and opportunities. It is voluminous, fast, increasingly complex, and comes in a range of formats. But if managed effectively, big data can deliver powerful benefits. It can result in more accurate analyses in fields ranging from health care to genomics to business informatics to physics. More accurate analyses lead to more confident decision-making. And better decisions can mean greater operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and decreased risk.

Quick Hits

Physics Professor Jaehoon Yu and Assistant Professor Jonathan Asaadi are working on the ICARUS particle detector at Fermilab. The UTA team is responsible for the data acquisition system and is developing a neutrino event triggering system.

UTA and Texas A&M University established the Texas Genomics Core Alliance to increase access to and decrease costs of cutting-edge, high-throughput genomics sequencing technologies.

The British Library Endangered Archives Programme extended a project led by history Professor David LaFevor to digitize colonial documents in Cuba, part of its initiative to preserve endangered documents relating to pre-industrial societies.

Data-Driven Discovery Stories

Star Bright

Identifying gaps in space transportation systems

Though the space race may have cooled down, the U.S. still looks to the skies as an opportunity for exploration—and...

Hacked

Computer scientist designing new ways to test security

The average computer data breach in the U.S. can cost a company upward of $7.9 million, according to a study...

Zoom

Speeding up computers through cache access

Song Jiang knows the importance of a cache in computer memory systems. Now, the computer science associate professor is exploring...