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## [What Neuroscientists and Software Developers Discovered in a One-Day Hackathon](https://exaptive.com/blog/what-neuroscientists-and-software-developers-discovered-in-a-one-day-hackathon)

 Posted by [Jill Macchiaverna](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/jill-macchiaverna) on Sep 16, 2019 10:42:44 AM

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The goal: investigate huge amounts of research data in new ways. The pool for teams: neuroscientists, data scientists, and software developers. The result: answering questions we didn’t even know we had.

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## [Shedding Light on the "Black Box” of Collaboration](https://exaptive.com/blog/shedding-light-on-the-black-box-of-collaboration)

 Posted by [Dave King](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/dave-king) on Mar 27, 2019 2:05:28 AM

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In Stanley Kubrick’s famous film based on Arthur C. Clark’s book, *2001: A Space Odyssey*, a mysterious black monolith appears on Earth millions of years before modern humans. It’s the classic “black box.” We don’t know who made it, what’s in it, or how it works, but it’s miraculous and powerful and somehow results in jumpstarting the entire evolution of humankind.

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## [Ethical Data Standards to Drive Society Forward](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward)

 Posted by [Austin Schwinn](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/austin-schwinn) on Feb 1, 2019 12:05:00 PM

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I am constantly amazed by the energy and momentum around data science. Only a few years ago, I would be met with a blank stare when I told someone I planned on going to grad school for machine learning. Today, there is no need for my “it's like computer science, linear algebra, and statistics had a combined love child” analogy as most people instantly respond with “Oh, like AI!”

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## [Finding Balance on the Spectrum Between Lone Geniuses and Team Scientists](https://exaptive.com/blog/finding-balance-on-the-spectrum-between-lone-geniuses-and-team-scientists)

 Posted by [AIBS BioScience Talks](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/aibs-bioscience-talks) on Oct 12, 2018 11:49:31 AM

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**James Verdier:** Hi, I'm James Verdier and welcome to the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ *BioScience* Talks which is a forum for integrating the life sciences. On the second Wednesday of each month we discuss the latest bioscience publications. And as a reminder if you'd like to read more point your browser to academic.oup.com/bioscience.

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## [Machine Learning Helps Humans Perform Text Analysis](https://exaptive.com/blog/how-machine-learning-helps-humans-search-millions-of-documents-instantly)

 Posted by [Josh Southerland](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/josh-southerland) on Apr 19, 2018 1:09:13 PM

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The rise of Big Data created the need for data applications to be able to consume data residing in disparate databases, of wildly differing schema. The traditional approach to performing analytics on this sort of data has been to warehouse it; to move all the data into one place under a common schema so it can be analyzed.

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