Eight surprising things data science has revealed about us over the past decade
Big data analysis has long supported major feats in physics and astronomy. But more recently we've seen it underpin breakthroughs in the social sciences and humanities.
Big data analysis has long supported major feats in physics and astronomy. But more recently we've seen it underpin breakthroughs in the social sciences and humanities.
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2022
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In 1933, Fritz Zwicky, famous American astronomer of Swiss origin, arrived at the astonishing conclusion that even though galaxies are the signposts of galaxy clusters, their contribution to the total cluster mass is minuscule ...
Astronomy
Jan 8, 2019
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Scientists from the Higher School of Economics have developed a method that allows physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to separate between various types of elementary particles with a high degree of accuracy. The ...
General Physics
Nov 1, 2018
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Experienced operators claim they can tell if their machine is functioning properly merely by listening to the sounds it makes. EU-funded researchers have gone one better by developing technology based on the human auditory ...
Software
Oct 8, 2018
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Follow the money. It's a famous phrase from the Watergate era, but it applies to everyday life in modern Washington as well. That advice just got easier for everyone to carry out, thanks to the launch of LobbyView.org, a ...
Other
Sep 13, 2018
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California college student Anjali Banerjee was watching fireworks during a 2016 celebration on a seafront promenade in the French city of Nice when a man plowed a huge truck through the crowd, killing 86 people and wounding ...
Other
Aug 11, 2018
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A lawyer in Bermuda became internet-famous for dancing ballet alongside his two-year-old daughter, comforting her stage fright by being there and doing the dance moves right with her. He knew the part because he had practiced ...
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2018
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By unleashing the power of big data and statistical physics, researchers in Japan have developed a model that aids understanding of how and why financial Brownian motion arises. Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...
General Physics
Mar 29, 2018
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The first "big data" analysis of California's native plants, using digitized information from more than 22 herbaria and botanical gardens around the state, provides some surprises about one of the most thoroughly studied ...
Ecology
Dec 5, 2017
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Numerous science and engineering applications require finding the lowest or highest value of a mathematical model. This is usually obtained computationally by running an optimisation algorithm. When working with big data ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 26, 2017
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