Mining Big Data
Across disciplines at the University at Albany, researchers are studying how to manage and best utilize massive amounts of digital data.
The Center for Technology in Government, for example, has developed critical tools for government to better comprehend data and make it available to the masses. Faculty are designing systems to process large data sets and algorithms for analyzing the structure of social networks.
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Mining Medical Records to Improve Health Care
A patient’s medical record typically contains a vast amount of information, some standardized for use in computer information systems, but much written unstructured in free text.
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Large Scale Data Analysis Advances Research in the Life Sciences
New state-of-the-art equipment at UAlbany’s Cancer Research Center is a sign of both the growing importance of advanced data analytical capabilities in research and the steps UAlbany is taking to train the next generation of scientists.