Massive data sets — a season’s worth of baseball statistics, for example, or health data from around the world — can contain some very revealing knowledge. The problem confronting researchers, though, is finding it. That may be a little easier with some tools developed by scientists at Harvard University and the Broad Institute. The suite of tools called “MINE” — Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration — were revealed this week in an article published in the journal Science.
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New MINE Tools Can Refine Mountains of Data
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. December 21, 2011 09:25 AMMassive data sets — a season’s worth of baseball statistics, for example, or health data from around the world — can contain some very revealing knowledge. The problem confronting researchers, though, is finding it. That may be a little easier with some tools developed by scientists at Harvard University and the Broad Institute. The suite of tools called “MINE” — Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration — were revealed this week in an article published in the journal Science.