{"id":4284,"date":"2016-01-12T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2017-05-12T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:06:45","slug":"new-tools-for-tapping-data-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2016\/01\/new-tools-for-tapping-data-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tools for Tapping Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3256_c.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4289 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3256_c-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Vladimir Braverman \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3256_c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3256_c-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JHU3256_c-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/faculty\/vladimir-braverman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Braverman<\/a> likens the algorithms that he and his team are inventing to deal with massive amounts of streaming data to the hammers and picks that miners use to remove precious metals from the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order for us to extract patterns and valuable information that are hiding in all that data, we need to build strong new hammers,\u201d says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">computer scientist<\/a>, a co-principal investigator on a three-year, $1 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Science Foundation<\/a> grant aimed at developing algorithms that will allow researchers to better extract information from massive streams of data.<\/p>\n<p>These tools have the potential to help astronomers create more accurate cosmological simulations, to allow neuroscientists to better analyze abnormal connectivity patterns in brain graphs, and even to enable researchers to identify meaningful patterns or bursts of significant activity within massive text streams like Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to create simple tools and methods that allow data analysis to be accessible to almost anyone,\u201d Braverman explains.<\/p>\n<p>The team includes fellow computer scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/faculty\/randal-burns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Randal Burns<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/faculty\/benjamin-van-durme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Van Durme<\/a>, and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/faculty\/alex-szalay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Szalay<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/faculty\/tamas-budavari\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tamas Budavari<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics<\/a>. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Braverman likens the algorithms that he and his team are inventing to deal with massive amounts of streaming data to the hammers and picks that miners use to remove precious metals from the Earth. \u201cIn order for us to extract patterns and valuable information that are hiding in all that data, we need to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[119,143,144,145,146,147,148,149],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","tag-department-of-computer-science","tag-vladimir-braverman","tag-algorithms","tag-streaming-data","tag-tamas-budavari","tag-randal-burns","tag-benjamin-van-durme","tag-alexander-szalay","issue-winter-2016"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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