I recently came across an article in Wired, “The End of Theory: Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete“. To sum it quite quickly: the volumes of data available to entities such as Google allow analysis of data without hypotheses, facilitating scientific progress without the need for theory.
I find the article troubling since someone will [...]
Entries from November 2008
Theory and Petabyte Science
November 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Data Mining · Sociology
