{"522401":{"#nid":"522401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"$1.2M NSF Award Helps Consumers Enter Age of Big Data","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Computational Science \u0026amp; Engineering and Rutgers University have been awarded $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to create prototype systems that will allow users to make sense of vast amounts of data through intuitive new ways to view and interact with it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Polo Chau at Georgia Tech and James Abello of Rutgers University\u2019s Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science were jointly awarded the grant to help realize some of \u201cBig Data\u2019s\u201d analytic potential.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs data sets increase in size and complexity, interacting with them quickly escalates into an arduous undertaking. For example, every day scientists publish their findings in journals in their different disciplines. Wading through all recent publications in an area like heart disease research is daunting enough, but in an interdisciplinary world, how could that medical researcher also learn of relevant breakthroughs in physics, evolutionary biology, or computational science?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilarly, analysts must spot abnormal activities in computer networks composed of tons of data of different types, and patients need to understand their puzzling symptoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022From a non-specialist user\u0027s point of view,\u0022 Chau said, \u0022the concern is certainly not about storage, or computing power, or large-scale data processing. It is about how to make sense of a large amount of different kinds of data using \u2018natural\u2019 ways to interact and explore their representations.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith this award, Abello and Chau will take on the challenge of computer-human interactive exploration of information-rich, billion-scale network data sets. These include relationships on online social networks, who is buying what on online auctions, and intelligence analysis of communication patterns and network traffic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey plan to develop prototype systems, in which users will gradually build up an understanding of billion-scale network datasets. This research could fundamentally change how people make sense of data in many areas like scientific literature, cybersecurity, and consumer decision making.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The findings could increase education effectiveness, the rate of scientific discovery, and allow us all to make better informed decisions without each needing several Ph.D. degrees,\u201d Abello said. \u201cWe could stand on the shoulders of a lot more giants.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Polo Chau nets $1.2M NSF grant to help bring scientific literature review into the age of Big Data.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Polo Chau nets $1.2M NSF grant to help bring scientific literature review into the age of Big Data"}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2016-04-07 09:58:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"164361":{"id":"164361","type":"image","title":"Polo Chau","body":null,"created":"1449178920","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:00","changed":"1475894799","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:39","alt":"Polo Chau","file":{"fid":"195498","name":"polo_blue.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/polo_blue_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/polo_blue_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51161,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/polo_blue_0.jpg?itok=PROWMJmI"}}},"media_ids":["164361"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"7251","name":"analytics"},{"id":"15092","name":"big data"},{"id":"4305","name":"cse"},{"id":"92811","name":"data science"},{"id":"83261","name":"Polo Chau"},{"id":"166983","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jsalazar@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJennifer Salazar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jsalazar@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}