Abstract

The field of data science has developed over the years to enable the efficient integration and analysis of the increasingly large amounts of data being generated across many domains, ranging from social media, to sensor networks, to scientific experiments. Numerous subfields of biology and medicine, such as genetics, neuroimaging, and mobile health, are witnessing a data explosion that promises to revolutionize biomedical science by yielding novel insights and discoveries. To address the challenges posed by biomedical big data, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative (datascience.nih.gov). An important component of this effort is the training of biomedical researchers. To this end, the NIH has funded the BD2K Training Coordinating Center (TCC). A core activity of the BD2K TCC is to develop a web portal (bigdatau.org) to provide personalized training in …

Date

April 3, 2017

Authors

José Luis Ambite, Lily Fierro, Florian Geigl, Jonathan Gordon, Gully APC Burns, Kristina Lerman, John D Van Horn

Book

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Pages

1203-1211