{"id":153344,"date":"2022-12-21T03:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/study-shows-how-machine-learning-could-predict-rare-disastrous-events-like-earthquakes-or-pandemics"},"modified":"2022-12-21T03:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T09:23:45","slug":"study-shows-how-machine-learning-could-predict-rare-disastrous-events-like-earthquakes-or-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/study-shows-how-machine-learning-could-predict-rare-disastrous-events-like-earthquakes-or-pandemics","title":{"rendered":"Study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-how-machine-learning-could-predict-rare-disastrous-events-like-earthquakes-or-pandemics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PROVIDENCE, R.I.<\/strong> [Brown University] \u2014 When it comes to predicting disasters brought on by extreme events (think earthquakes, pandemics or \u201crogue waves\u201d that could destroy coastal structures), computational modeling faces an almost insurmountable challenge: Statistically speaking, these events are so rare that there\u2019s just not enough data on them to use predictive models to accurately forecast when they\u2019ll happen next.<\/p>\n<p>But a team of researchers from Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology say it doesn\u2019t have to be that way.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43588-022-00376-0\">new study<\/a> in Nature Computational Science, the scientists describe how they combined statistical algorithms \u2014 which need less data to make accurate, efficient predictions \u2014 with a powerful machine learning technique developed at Brown and trained it to predict scenarios, probabilities and sometimes even the timeline of rare events despite the lack of historical record on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] \u2014 When it comes to predicting disasters brought on by extreme events (think earthquakes, pandemics or \u201crogue waves\u201d that could destroy coastal structures), computational modeling faces an almost insurmountable challenge: Statistically speaking, these events are so rare that there\u2019s just not enough data on them to use predictive models to accurately [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}