Digging into Data Challenge Winners Awarded nearly $5 Million
23.05.12
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"We're excited to continue our involvement in the Digging into Data Challenge as it has proven an excellent opportunity to leverage our resources through partnering with a number of other agencies, both in the U.S. and abroad," said Elizabeth Tran, an associate program officer for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA, one of three federal agencies supporting the challenge.
"Digging into Data has helped reduce some of the barriers to international research by making collaboration among the scholars as seamless as possible through a single review process and joint decision making," she said.
First round projects included digging into a body of 53,000 18th-century letters to analyze the degree to which the effects of the Enlightenment could be observed in the letters of people with various occupations; creating tools to enable rapid and flexible access and linguistic analysis of more than 9,000 hours of spoken audio files from leading British and American spoken word corpora; and integrating a vast collection of textual, geographical and numerical data to allow the visual presentation of American railroads and their impact on society over time, among others.
Source: Scientific Computing