Posts Tagged ‘ny times’

Predicting the spread of flu

3rd May 2009 by No Comments

The NY Times has an article discussing how models can help predict the spread of the flu.

Map of knowledge

19th March 2009 by No Comments

Here’s another great visualization from the NY Times. The scientists at Los Alamos National Labs tracked online data searches for scientific journals and compiled the associations as browsers moved between them.

Crunching the data for the tree of life

9th February 2009 by No Comments

Here’s a New York Times article about scientists working to relate the genetic material of all plants to eachother. One problem is how to visualize such a massive data set.

Data analysts captivated by R’s power

7th January 2009 by No Comments

The New York Times has picked up on the increasing popularity of the open source analytics and data mining software, R.

HP refocuses on data warehousing

29th December 2008 by No Comments

Mark Hurd, CEO of HP, has refocused HP on data warehousing. He encouraged HP engineers to meld decades-old technology inherited from the Compaq Computer acquisition with H. data analysis software to create a product called NeoView. Check out the NY Times Article.