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Could Big Data be the end of theory in science?
Author(s) -
Mazzocchi Fulvio
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201541001
Subject(s) - big data , data science , computer science , computational biology , biology , data mining
The era of Big Data is claimed to herald the end of hypothesis‐driven research in favour of sophisticated algorithms uncovering information from huge data sets. But a closer look reveals that Big Data actually enhances the testing of hypothesis and experimentation, rather than replaces them.