Purdue: Online program boosts retention rates
An algorithm designed to spot struggling students and offer guidance and assistance even in the first couple weeks of their college career proved highly effective at Purdue University…
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Rice University creates BOLD system to handle Big Data
Researchers at Rice University are taking some BOLD steps to get a handle on making sense of the enormous amount of Big Data being generated by campus scientists.…
Higher ed’s cloud computing forecast: stormy
One of the definitions of the world "cloud" in Merriam-Webster's dictionary is "something that obscures or blemishes". This definition often seems fitting for today's computing cloud. I have…
New UM Cyber Innovation Lab will teach about security, ‘big data’
A new facility at the University of Montana will allow students to learn about cybersecurity and use “big data” to solve real-world problems, the Missoulian reports. On Monday,…
LinkedIn University Pages are a case study in building big data apps the right way
Professional network LinkedIn rolled out its new University Pages feature ... to much fanfare, but the pages are as much as a matter of smart engineering as they…
Big Data education hinges on business, university partnerships
Hey, college grad, ever heard of Hadoop? Know anything about statistics? In the coming years, big data skills might help you land a good job. Data analysis is…
NSA to open data analysis lab at NCSU
The National Security Agency plans to create a data analysis lab on North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus, officials said Thursday, WRAL reports. The $60.75 million NSA grant…
Big Data: An economic dud?
If pencil marks on some colossal doorjamb could measure the growth of the internet, they would probably be tracking the amount of data sloshing through the public network…
IBM collaborates with 1,000 institutions to help close Big Data skills gap
IBM, the technology corporation behind the data-mining super computer and Jeopardy champ Watson, is trying to close the Big Data “skills gap” and create enough data scientists to…
The Big Data job boom
Everywhere you go, everything you do, you’re generating data, and so is everyone around you, Business2Community reports.