BD Hubs: Collaborative Proposal: WEST: A Big Data Innovation Hub for the Western United States

美国西部的大数据创新中心将加入来自学术界、工业界、非营利机构和社区的利益相关者，他们分享与获取、存储、分析和集成大型或“混乱”数据（通常称为大数据）相关的共同挑战和创新方法。西部创新中心（Hub）将服务13个州，东部边界为蒙大拿州、科罗拉多州和新墨西哥州。该项目将开发中心的组织和治理结构，并开始努力为数据创新中心计划的后续阶段定义口头活动。最初的主题包括大数据技术、基于数据的科学发现和学习、自然资源和灾害管理、城域数据科学和精准医疗。通过该中心建立的伙伴关系将使大数据能够用于评估与区域和长期决策相关的风险。Hub的结构将对Hubs计划的后期阶段产生影响，其中可能包括用于管理自然资源的数据驱动模型，以及用于整合自我收集的患者数据以提供更精确的护理选择的工具。通过激发其成员行动的协调活动，中心有可能促进商业技术流动的改善，从而最大限度地提高成员组织（如大学）的竞争力，反之亦然：中心有可能通过更多地采用或通过初创企业扩大其成员技术的影响。该中心将通过促进大数据创新和问题解决的跨学科方法，影响下一代思想领袖和数据科学家，从而产生影响力。该中心促成的伙伴关系将带来专业证书课程和学生实习机会，为合作机构的毕业生创造一条渠道，影响企业、公共和政府机构、国家实验室、资源规划机构和监管委员会。项目网址：BDHub.SDSC.edu

The Big Data Innovation Hub for the Western United States will join stakeholders from academia, industry, non-profit institutions and the community who share common challenges and innovative approaches related to the acquisition, storage, analysis and integration of large or "messy" data, commonly referred to as Big Data. The West's Innovation Hub (Hub) will serve 13 states with Montana, Colorado and New Mexico marking the eastern boundary. This project will develop the organizational and governance structures for the Hub, and initiate efforts toward defining spoke activities for subsequent phases of the data innovation hubs program. The initial themes include Big Data technology, data-enabled scientific discovery and learning, managing natural resources and hazards, metro data science, and precision medicine. Partnerships fostered through the Hub will enable the use of Big Data to assess risks related to regional and long-term decisions. The Hub's structure will enable impact in later phases of the Hubs program that may include data-driven models for managing natural resources to tools for integrating self-collected patient data for more precise care options. Through coordination activities that inspire the action of its members, the Hub has the potential to facilitate the improved flow of commercial technologies in ways that maximize competitiveness for member organizations, such as universities, and vice versa: the Hub has the potential to expand the impact of its members' technologies through greater adoption or via start-ups. The Hub will be impactful by facilitating cross-discipline approaches to Big Data innovation and problem solving, influencing the next generation of thought leaders and data scientists. The partnerships enabled by the Hub will lead to professional certificate programs and student internships, creating a pipeline of graduates from partner institutions to impact corporations, public and governmental agencies, national labs, resource-planning agencies, and regulatory commissions.Project URL: BDHub.SDSC.edu