Fishing Trends out of Large Datasets (6 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Fishing Trends out of Large Datasets (6 of 6)

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Brothers David Reshef (second from right) and Yakir Reshef (right) developed the maximal information coefficient, or MIC, under the guidance of advisers Pardis Sabeti (second from left) of the Broad Institute and Michael Mitzenmacher (left) of the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by David N. Reshef at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Ma., and colleagues, was titled, “Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets.”

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