Month: June 2016

• Data Science for Social Good Program kicks off

  

  By Robin Brooks The eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is in full swing this summer, with fellows from eight different universities participating in four data-intensive research projects. This year’s teams are focused on urban science, with each group aiming to extract and comprehend relevant, usable information out of data from metropolitan…

• Viziometrics: a search engine for scientific images

  

  While good graphics are considered a critical component of an effective scientific paper, literature search engines have historically been text or citation based. This week the MIT Technology Review highlighted the first visual search engine for scientific diagrams – Viziometrics. The team behind this pioneering project includes Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student Po-Shen Lee, iSchool professor and…