Due to a late breaking work obligation, the 10:25 session on Quantifying Bias in Machine Learning by Elliott Church will be cancelled.  It is being rescheduled for the next meeting of the West Michigan Data Science and Analytics MeetUp. Because of this, David...

Data science is an important tool that can help researchers tackle challenges ranging from mobility and health to public safety and education. But having access to information comes with great responsibility, so researchers at the University of Michigan are working to...

The Big Data Ignite conference, now in its fourth year, is drawing attention from big companies including Initech, Snowflake, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, SpinDance, and others. This press release provides details about the upcoming meeting.

Over the past few years, Grand Valley State University (GVSU) has launched several educational programs in big data, of interest to adults seeking new knowledge or career reinvention, as well as traditional students. 

Learn how to create your own personal planner for Big Data Ignite 2019.

Big Data Ignite is pleased to be offering 5 workshops on Monday. Find out more.

All attendees of Big Data Ignite are invited to join us Tuesday evening.

We are happy to announce our newest sponsor: Google.  In addition to sponsoring the meeting, Google will be featured on the program as well.

Big Data Ignite is only a few weeks away and among the sessions to look forward to is… “How Does Michigan Stack Up?”  As we discussed in an earlier post, the Big Data Ignite Research Council has worked with Stack Overflow to gain access to a custom...

Data, data, and more data We've got all this data that comes from our connected devices, how do we make sense of it?  Don’t panic; it seems insanely complicated; it’s not.

Amidst our recent flurry of social media activity, you may have missed a few mini surveys that the BDI research team shared via Twitter. Thanks to those of you who responded to those! We learned a few things from the results. The first mini survey tweet asked “What is...

In the spring of 2018, during an Issues in Journalism class he was teaching, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein mentioned a freedom of information festival a dear friend and colleague had started in Chicago several years ago.  “Oh, we’re doing that here,” exclaimed Allison...

BlueGranite is headquartered out of Southwest MI and operates across the US. We will be presenting twice during Big Data Ignite –highlighting a machine learning use case when it comes to employee flight risk, as well as hosting a half-day workshop on how to get...