What is Big Data? Big data is term that you often hear when people talk about data science and analytics. So, the question is, “what is big data?” Doug Laney from Gartner, a leading information technology research company, defined 3 dimensions of “big data”: volume, velocity, and variety. Volume denotes the size and scale of… Read More »
Why are open source statistical programming languages the best? Because they R. It is August and Fall 2016 classes begin in just a couple of days. I am currently prepping for two large classes: I happy to see the incredible interest in my graduate course with over 50 students enrolled in ISE/DSA 5103 Intelligent Data Analytics! I… Read More »
Summer 2016 Hangout Very happy to see all the students and friends that came out to the Summer 2016 hangout at McNellie’s The Abner Ale House in Norman. I am privileged to work a wide variety of students in ISE, DSA, and CEES who are applying research in a broad array of application areas (from Community Resilience to… Read More »
Summer publications! We are happy to see two new papers accepted for publication in Computers and Industrial Engineering this Summer! These publications form a logical pair, with one introducing a new perspective that uses statistical learning to help study the Fixed-Charge Network Flow (FCNF) problem and the other develops a solution technique that hybridizes the new… Read More »