Simulated data modeled for the particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Our final zone in the 2014 Big Data Season is funded by the Science & Technology Facilities Council and will explore how computing is applied not only to biology, but also in other areas like astronomy, particle physics or meteorology.

Researchers working at the STFC use computers to store and analyse data to measure atmospheric conditions, develop new weather forecaster models, look out at the stars or understand cancer better.

They work together with scientists from other centres in huge international collaborations which produce immense amounts of data that lead to ground breaking discoveries: like the finding of the Higgs boson thanks to the data produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

If you are a scientist working on the field, and you’d like to take part in the Big Data Zone, apply here. If you are a teacher, and you want to get your students enthused about Big Data, register here.