Improving citizen science and big data analysis

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Computer science researcher Daniel Sheldon at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded a five-year, $550,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and test new mathematical approaches and algorithms to help ecologists and other scientists better use large data sets generated by citizen science projects, animal tracking devices and earth observation instruments, among other goals.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news