BD2K Training Coordinating Center's ERuDIte: the Educational Resource Discovery Index for Data Science.

Data science is a field that has developed to enable efficient integration and analysis of increasingly large data sets in many domains. In particular, big data in genetics, neuroimaging, mobile health, and other subfields of biomedical science, promises new insights, but also poses challenges. To address these challenges, the National Institutes of Health launched the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, including a Training Coordinating Center (TCC) tasked with developing a resource for personalized data science training for biomedical researchers.

The influence of social status and network structure on consensus building in collaboration networks.

In this paper, we analyze the influence of social status on opinion dynamics and consensus building in collaboration networks. To that end, we simulate the diffusion of opinions in empirical networks and take into account both the network structure and the individual differences of people reflected through their social status. For our simulations, we adapt a well-known Naming Game model and extend it with the to account for the social status of individuals participating in a meeting.