Hoping to find the "beef," the National Endowment for the Humanities teamed up with the National Science Foundation and institutions in Canada and Britain last year to create the Digging Into Data Challenge, a grant program designed to push research in new directions.
Markus Prior of Princeton University has dug into data, much of it unpublished, from ratings companies who remotely track viewing habits in sample households.
Its app digs into data on subscribers' most listened-to and starred tracks, as well as Spotify's own top tracks list, with the aim of recommending similar artists.
In a recent paper, Fischer Black, co-author of option-pricing theory and now with Goldman Sachs, launched a fierce attack*** on "data-mining": people digging into data until they find what looks like a trend.
He said as they "dug into data day by day we realised the pipeline and people we thought we could deliver, we couldn't".
After digging into data on M.D.-Ph.D.s, M.D.s, nurses, and other researchers with clinical training, the working group found new evidence for long-standing concerns about the supply of physician-scientists.
Brady sees Slice as something that plays in the same general space as Google Now, a product that digs into data from Google's own set of services like Gmail, Calendar, Maps and search history to proactively alert users about information just when they need it.
At our last meeting, we dug into data from a recent assessment, then broke into grade-level teams to develop action plans based on the data.
That means avoiding digging into data points you don't fully understand, and avoiding drawing conclusions about your results after short periods of time (after a week, for example).
