Could Big Data be the end of theory in science?
EMBO ReportsPublished 10 September 2015Open access
Fulvio Mazzocchi
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A closer look reveals that Big Data actually enhances the testing of hypothesis and experimentation, rather than replaces them.
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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. [Image: see text]
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