New partnership launches to harness potential of data scientists and big data

See: http://bit.ly/1a1I8dC

New York University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington launch a 5-year, $37.8 million cross-institutional effort

Three core goals:

  • Develop meaningful and sustained interactions and collaborationsbetween researchers with backgrounds in specific subjects (such as astrophysics, genetics, economics), and in the methodology fields (such as computer science, statistics and applied mathematics), with the specific aim of recognizing what it takes to move each of the sciences forward;

     

  • Establish career paths that are long-term and sustainable, using alternative metrics and reward structures to retain a new generation of scientists whose research focuses on the multi-disciplinary analysis of massive, noisy, and complex scientific data and the development of the tools and techniques that enable this analysis; and
     
  • Build on current academic and industrial efforts to work towards an ecosystem of analytical tools and research practices that is sustainable, reusable, extensible, learnable, easy to translate across research areas and enables researchers to spend more time focusing on their science.