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Datathon for Women of Color

The South Big Data Hub will join HerWILL (Women Inspired in Life and Leadership) for the “First Ever Datathon for Women of Color,” a competition preceded by four weeks of Data Science Basic workshops on Machine Learning, Databases, Data Scrubbing, and Data Science Opportunities with some of the top industry leaders in innovation, business, and […]

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South Big Data Hub All-Hands Meeting 2021

Bringing People and Data Together Join big data influencers from industry, academia, nonprofits, and government to discuss some of the most important topics in data science today: Building Data Science Education and Workforce Promoting Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Addressing Societal Challenges Connecting the Data Community The South Big Data Hub has spent the last five […]

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South Big Data Hub receives second round of NSF funding

$4 million will support continued innovation and problem-solving in the Southern data science community.

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Amazon Web Services Training

Please join Amazon Web Services (AWS), the South Big Data Innovation Hub, and RENCI for an Amazon Web Services Training on Wednesday, October 31st from 8:30am to 4:45pm ET. This workshop will introduce advanced topics in AWS and take you through a deep-dive into AWS core services.​

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Strategies for hiring and maintaining a diverse data scientists workforce

Data science is hot. That’s good news for workers with data science skills. It also means organizations competing to hire data scientists need to understand how to recruit talent that will solve their data science challenges and contribute to creating a productive and diverse workforce. 

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Separating the wheat from the chaff in an age of bots and trolls

In the age of ubiquitous connectivity and social media, information is at our fingertips. Unfortunately, so is misinformation and often it is hard to tell one from the other. A recent roundtable discussion sponsored by the South Big Data Hub examined the rapidly changing landscape for building online communities, sharing information, and creating what often […]

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Big Data Innovation Hubs selected for NTIS joint venture partnership

Partnerships called “a major milestone for the data economy” The four Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs have been selected by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce to enter into a Joint Venture Partnership. Once finalized, this partnership will provide opportunities for collaborations between the Big Data Hubs and NTIS […]

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Webinar to discuss smart and connected cities

The explosion of digital data means changes in how we work, play, and interact with each other and with the technologies and devices we depend on. Nowhere is that change more apparent than in the than in movement to create smart and interconnected cities. What started as an effort to integrate multiple information and communication […]

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South Big Data Hub announces awards that apply data science to regional challenges

Awards part of $11 million in National Science Foundation Big Data Hub “Spoke” awards Three research teams in the Southern U.S. will receive funding for projects designed to use data science and data analytics to address challenges related to healthcare, environmental sustainability, and updating and improving power grids. The funding will be awarded through the […]

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