E-science effort will try to tame data torrents

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Research by design: Schematic diagram of geophysical data workflows. Credit: USC Information Sciences Institute
Research by design: Schematic diagram of geophysical data workflows. Credit: USC Information Sciences Institute

A growing number of scientific fields suffer from a stifling embarassment of riches: data pile up much faster than they can be analyzed. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute is now building a prototype of a system that will address the problem by automating scientific workflows.


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