ANN ARBOR, Mich. On Tuesday, Ann Arbor-based artificial intelligence software company Voxel51 announced the launch of an open-source tool that helps data scientists and machine learning engineers tackle the laborious process of image data management. Nothing hinders the success of machine learning systems more than poor-quality data. Yet the process of continuous data quality management is incredibly challenging and time consuming, said Jason Corso, Voxel51 co-founder and CEO. The tool uses an interactive dashboard, Python library, and built-in helper functions and tutorials to help users navigate their data to improve predictive performance. The company helps and computer vision data scientists and machine learning scientists curate data in order to make higher-performing machine learning systems.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) at the University of Michigan has awarded grants to seven interdisciplinary teams to fund different COVID-19 research projects. Each team will receive up to $30,000 in funding through the MIDAS Propelling Original Data Science pilot funding program. Research projects will use data science methods to combat the COVID-19 pandemic through researching better clinical decisions for in-patients, improved testing strategies, detection of high-risk communities and addressing healthcare inequality. Teams are from different departments including epidemiology, biostatistics, emergency medicine and the U-M School of Information among others. The seven projects were chosen from 49 submissions.