Data Matters™ was a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series was sponsored by the National Consortium for Data Science in collaboration with North Carolina State University, RENCI and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. Data Matters gave students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, curation, and more fro...

The aim of the Cyber Carpentry workshop was to make it easier for participants to learn all aspects of the data-intensive computing environment, and more importantly, to work together with other researchers with complementary expertise: domain scientists with computer and information scientists. This two-week workshop provided doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers with an overview of best data management practices, data science tools, and concrete steps and methods for performing en...

The sixth annual Smart Grid Workshop (SGW) at Texas A&M University (TAMU) was held in College Station on the 8th of May, 2018. It is the second Smart Grids Big Data (SGBD) Spoke Workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) organized to support the SGBD Spoke project, a collaborative effort between Dr. Mladen Kezunovic (PI, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M; Director, TEES Smart Grid Center) and Co-PIs from Texas A&M: Drs. Dilma Da Silva (Profe...

The third edition of Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics workshop (MCBDA 2018) took place on May 15-16, 2018 at Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, USA. This workshop covered the state-of-the-art research and development in deep learning and high performance computing for big data analytics, especially for mission-critical applications. The website is found here>

South Big Data Hub page organized a Webcast on April 12, 2018. For more information on the Webcast, click here to join the South Big Data Hub google groups.

Advanced Power System Analytics Induced by Smart Technology – Software Tools and Consulting Services Evolution Monday, March 05, 2018, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., ETB 1035 Presenter: Hala N. Ballouz, P.E., President- Electric Power Engineers, Inc. Abstract: Since the early 2000s our Transmission and Distribution of energy has undergone significant transformation starting with the deregulation of energy markets, to renewable energy development, all the way to distributed energy resources and sm...

Dr. Mladen Kezunovic was the keynote speaker in the first International IEEE Conference of Energy Internet and Energy System Integration held at Tsinghua University Nov 27-28, 2017 under the title "Big Data Analytics for improved Electric Grid Resiliency". Dr. Kezunovic also handed out best student paper awards on behalf of IEEE.