{"id":27077,"date":"2016-06-21T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/darpa-launches-program-to-help-data-science-through-automated-empirical-modeling"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:27","slug":"darpa-launches-program-to-help-data-science-through-automated-empirical-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/darpa-launches-program-to-help-data-science-through-automated-empirical-modeling","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Launches Program to Help Data Science Through Automated Empirical Modeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-launches-program-to-help-data-science-through-automated-empirical-modeling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched its <em>Data-Driven Discovery of Models<\/em> program that aims to automate aspects of data science to help non-experts construct their own empirical models.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2016-06-17\" target=\"_blank\">said Friday<\/a> D3M looks to address a data science expertise gap the agency says is reflected by lack of results for predictive questions among popular search engines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction of empirical models today is largely a manual process, requiring data experts to translate stochastic elements, such as weather and traffic, into models that engineers and scientists can then ask questions of,\u201d said Wade Shen, a DARPA program manager in the information innovation office.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/2016\/06\/darpa-launches-program-to-help-data-science-through-automated-empirical-modeling\/\">http:\/\/www.executivegov.com\/2016\/06\/darpa-launches-program-t...-modeling\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched its Data-Driven Discovery of Models program that aims to automate aspects of data science to help non-experts construct their own empirical models. DARPA said Friday D3M looks to address a data science expertise gap the agency says is reflected by lack of results for predictive questions among [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67139,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077\/revisions\/67139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}