At Oregon State, Betts started the Oregon Forest Biodiversity Research Network to
use big datasets to answer such questions.
Not exact matches
Now, the costs of collecting and analyzing all these
datasets have come down, so it's finally feasible to
use them in tandem to answer
big biological questions.
«Although the term «
big data» in the life sciences is not well - defined, it refers to the process of gaining useful, actionable information from multiple large
datasets that are not uniform, static and easily analyzed
using conventional statistical and computational methods,» she said.
This position will give me the opportunity to put what I have learned about dealing with
big datasets over the last few years into practical
use to ensure that MDI Biological Laboratory scientists are
using, vetting and processing
datasets in a rigorous, reproducible way.»
That is why researchers in this area are quite careful what they include and have
used smaller
datasets than Frank —
bigger is not always better.
The term «
big data» refers both to
datasets that are too large for analysis
using traditional techniques and to the new and emerging cleaning and analytic tools we apply to such data.
Analyses
using the T1
dataset (N = 354) provided convergent evidence of validity with
big - five personality traits and discriminant evidence with need for cognition.
The researchers analyzed two large administrative
datasets about mentors and mentees — MentorPRO
used by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, and the Agency Information Management system
used by
Big Brothers
Big Sisters (BBBS) of America.