American Fidelity Now Hiring Data Scientists. Listed as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work for in the country by Fortune magazine and the Great Place to Work Institute, American Fidelity is looking for Data Scientists to join their Enterprise data team and their recruiters have contacted the University of Oklahoma, and the MS Data Science… Read More »
Statistical Controls on Induced Seismicity Conference paper by Yunjie Wen, Saurabh Sinha, Rafael Pires De Lima, and Kurt Marfurt Seismicity in Oklahoma has shown a sharp increase since 2010 and is mostly attributed to wells used to dispose wastewater from hydraulically fractured production wells (McClure, Gibson, Chiu, & Ranganath, 2017). Many studies are conducted so far… Read More »
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 »
Congratulations Alexander: KDD Scholarship! Congratulations to Alexander Rodriguez for his recent KDD scholarship award. The award is for the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in San Francisco, CA. Alexander, who joined the Analytics Lab in the first of June 2016, won the scholarship through Broadening Participation in Data Mining (BPDM). The BPDM workshop will be co-located… Read More »
A article in the Norman Transcript just came out on the recent NSF Resilience Analytics grant award to OU. See full article here: OU Prof Leads NSF Grant The project, led by my colleague Dr. Kash Barker, is bringing “data science” to bear on a very complex and important problem: Our infrastructure systems (e.g. power,… Read More »
Infrastructure must outsmart disruptions to continue delivery of essential goods and services. To this end, NSF-funded 12 CRISP projects in FY 2015 including $2.2 million to support Resilience Analytics: A Data-Driven Approach for Enhanced Interdependent Network Resilience. Kash Barker of the University of Oklahoma (OU) will lead the project, in partnership with Charles Nicholson of OU, James… Read More »