The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been awarded $3.3 million in grants to the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub to create solutions to address technology and data sharing in relation to high-priority areas such as education and health care. Researchers are working to promote data literacy and seek to resolve issues unique to big data usage and research. Big data offers unique opportunities for data-mining, but the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub and its affiliates are combating concerns about security, privacy, legal challenges, and other policies that frequently limit researchers ability to utilize big data to its maximum potential.
Read more at the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s news page.