A Shared Mission
Data science is happening everywhere—so let’s work together. The Big Data Innovation Hubs bring together a wide-ranging and inclusive community to collaborate with data on shared societal and scientific priorities.
National initiatives like the COVID Information Commons, the Keeping Data Science Broad program, and the Data Sharing & Cyberinfrastructure Working Group are how we convene this grassroots community and amplify impact.
COVID Information Commons
The COVID Information Commons (CIC) is an open website to facilitate knowledge-sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts, funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator and the NSF Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Directorate. The CIC serves as an open resource for researchers, students, and decision-makers from academia, government, not-for-profits and industry to identify collaboration opportunities, to leverage each other’s research findings, and to accelerate the most promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data Science Education and Workforce Working Group
Data literacy is essential to navigate the current deluge of data in almost every scientific discipline and business sector. The United States suffers from a lack of a trained workforce to meet both current and emerging demands, making data science a critical element of educating students for the 21st century. The Data Science Education and Workforce working group has zeroed in on a plan to collect and provide practical resources and models of engagement for broadening and deepening the available pool of data literate talent.
Data Sharing & Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
The Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group is a collaboration across all four of the Big Data Innovation Hubs. The working group brings together data scientists and cyberinfrastructure professionals to learn about topics of common interest. Areas covered include data management and analytics tools and frameworks, and use of data science to solve real world problems in areas such as transportation, water quality, public health, disaster response and cybersecurity.
Data Science Resource Repository (DSRR)
The Data Science Resource Repository (DSRR) is a curated set of resources for learners, educators, researchers, career explorers, and professionals that promotes data science literacy.
The DSRR leverages open-source resources and best practices to broadly increase data science capacity, with a specific focus on underserved communities.
Keeping Data Science Broad Webinar Series
Having the skills to understand and make sense of data can provide a sense of power – or conversely, a sense of powerlessness to communities without these skills. The economic and social consequences of the Data Divide severely limit the opportunities of those who are unable to take advantage of the data revolution. The goal of this series is to garner community input into pathways for keeping data science as a discipline broadly inclusive, with input from data science programs in any region across the nation, either traditional or alternative, and from a range of institution types including minority-serving institutions, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, tribal colleges, universities, and industry partners.
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) PI Meeting and Coordination Activity
This is the inaugural PI meeting for the National Science Foundation’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Big Idea. HDR is a visionary, national-scale activity to enable new modes of data-driven discovery, allowing fundamentally new questions to be asked and answered in science and engineering frontiers, generating new knowledge and understanding, and accelerating discovery and innovation.
National Student Data Corps (NSDC)
The National Student Data Corps (NSDC) is a community-developed initiative that teaches data science fundamentals to students across the United States and around the world, with a special focus on underserved institutions and students.
The NSDC provides a number of educational resources and professional events related to data science for students, teachers, researchers, and STEM enthusiasts.
NSF Proto-OKN
In collaboration with five other U.S. government agencies, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested $26.7 million in 18 projects through its Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN) program. The NEBDHub and colleagues at Wright State University will develop educational materials and tools for people or organizations interested in engaging with the Proto-OKN with support from NSF award #2333532.
Seed Fund Awards
Each Big Data Hub provides support for innovative research programs in the form of Seed Funding. Learn more about the various projects supported, including outcomes and impacts, on each of the Hub websites.
Trustworthy Data Working Group
Open science relies on data integrity, collaboration, high performance computing, and scalable tools to achieve results, but currently lacks effective cybersecurity programs that address the trustworthiness of scientific data. The Trustworthy Data Working Group (TDWG) is a collaboration between the four Big Data Hubs and Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, along with other partners. The goal of the working group is to understand scientific data security concerns and provide guidance on ensuring data trustworthiness.
CONNECT WITH US
Launched by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2015, we engage communities, share resources, and build partnerships that harness the data revolution to address societal and scientific challenges.
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
Digital Agriculture
Smart, Connected, and Resilient Communities
Water Quality
Big Data in Health
Health and Disparities
Smart Cities and Communities
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
Environment and Coastal Hazards
Social Cybersecurity
Health
Education + Data Literacy
Urban to Rural Communities
Responsible Data Science: Security + Privacy Ethics