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The Study of Big Data: How CLAS Researchers Use Data Science
UConn researchers are using big data to attack issues of climate, space, genetics and public health
Associate Professor of Physics Cara Battersby talks to attendees at a solar eclipse viewing on Horsebarn Hill in 2017. Her work uses high-performance computing to understand astronomical questions (Bri Diaz/UConn Photo).
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When Anji Seth was in graduate school, she never thought of herself as a big data scientist.
She just went to her engineering and atmospheric science classes, did the computer programming that was required, and learned as she went.
“All of my classes required some kind of programming – it was a natural thing,” she notes. “But we didn’t train specifically on it – we just did it. Climate science is one of the original ‘big data’ problems, but we didn’t always call it that.” ....

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