Not sure how relevant this will be to recent discusison as to use of big data in maritime sector but worth exploring maybe?

Making sense from data

The EPSRC Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Theme is inviting outline proposals that explore how to extract meaning from data.

 

Issue date: 28 October 2014

Closing date: 06 January 2015 at 16:00

Status: Open

Type: Invitation for outlines

Related themes: ICT, Mathematical sciences

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/makingsensefromdata/