WE'RE OUT HERE CLEANING DATA AND TAKING SAMPLES

Providing tools to support inheritors of the devastating effects of the climate crisis

WITH BIG IDEAS COME BIG RESPONSIBILITIES

the Big Data Cluster

Two dozen researchers at all points along their scientific and academic career paths have come together as part of the Big Data Cluster.

Member biographies
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committed to the future of science education

We love science, we're dedicated to doing better science. But that's not enough. We are developing partnerships and tools that strengthen classroom teachers' abilities to inspire, educate, and uplift students to pursue a career that means so much to us.

TEAM SCIENCE

collaboration and empathy

We're all in this together. The Big Data Cluster's approach to Critical Zone research is firmly rooted in our dedication to Team Science, doing the work and taking the time to make space for all voices to be heard as the project continues.

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What we do

We complement the traditional linear trajectory of investigation (i.e., developing a hypothesis, planning experiments, and collecting and analyzing data to test the hypothesis) with an iterative framework using data-driven and process-based approaches combined with novel complex-systems tools.

How we do it

These complex-systems tools find patterns that stand out from background noise in a large sets of data and deal with this complexity in Big Data sources. These sources are existing and newly collected data that have: a lot of data, almost real-time data, very different data types, data of varying quality and/or data ready for use.