Tacc Podcasts

Podcast host Jorge Salazar interviews Kelly Gaither, Director of Visualization at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Gaither is also the Director of Community Engagement and Enrichment for XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, funded by the National Science Foundation. XSEDE identified 20 graduate and undergrad students to participate in a week-long event called Advanced Computing for Social Change. The event is hosted by XSEDE, TACC and SC16. The SC16 Social Action Network student cohort will tackle a computing challenge. They will learn how to mine through a variety of data sets such as social media data encompassing a number of years and across large geographic regions. To complete their analysis in a timely fashion they will learn how to organize the large data sets to allow fast queries. The students of the SC16 Social Action Network will also use a computational modeling tool called risk terrain modeling that has been used to predict crime using crime statistics. Thi