From determining the value of your favorite baseball player to refining the holiday online shopping you’re doing in the other tab right now, the practice of big data analytics is everywhere.
The field crunches thousands, millions or even billions of data points to better understand a problem in any field. The Data-Driven Knowledge Discovery Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been solving and visualizing problems in various areas like architecture, computing, biomedical engineering and chemistry for more than a decade.