e-science

Theory and Petabyte Science

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,…

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Social Media and Scientific Collaboration

I saw an article posted to Slashdot yesterday about how scientists are using Web 2.0 tools to facilitate collaboration. The original piece, published in Scientific American, offers some food for thought around these parts. The article is pretty basic, but…

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