In short: data is everywhere. But it is not enough to have big data sets – you also need the proper tools to make sure they are useful and to get actionable knowledge out of them. Unless it is ...

thanks in large part to innovative startups and systems for collecting and analyzing big data. Traditionally, genetic studies have been conducted on populations with a predominately European ...

Bioinformatics, an interdisciplinary branch of research that combines biology, chemistry, computer science and statistics, has become an essential tool to analyse big data sets — as demonstrated ...

Continuous assessment (10%) in the LT Week 7. The main assessment will consist of an individual project to develop a package for fitting statistical models of the student's own choice to big data sets ...