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January 9, 2013
Big data, bigger view: Advanced visualization for the humanities

As exponentally expanding sets of digitized text, audio, and image resources create new opportunities for research and scholarship in the humanities, the ability to visualize and explore these large data sets is critical to research. Find out about one open source tool advancing visualization for the humanities and revealing resolutions and scales never before seen.

November 28, 2012
Preserving humanity’s 'genetic Adam'

October 17, 2012
Keeping an eye on superfast transactions on Wall Street

Today, humans are generally removed from the process of trading on the financial markets; they have been replaced by algorithms and supercomputers. As such, trading speeds have progressed from microseconds to nanoseconds. Now, researchers are keeping up by using a supercomputer to catch a supercomputer.

June 27, 2012
Open-source maps twin nature-nurture data

September 21, 2011
Forecasting humanity

News abounds at lightning speeds—on the Internet and T.V., in newspapers, magazines, blogs, and social networking sites—but what do we get when we consume news?

Scientist Kalev Leetaru believes news is capable of teaching us much more than just what happened in the world today. Leetaru's recent paper explores analyzing news to forecast human behavior with surprising success.