New Big Data tools have the potential to usher an information-based scientific revolution

Data science is now emerging as a research and applied methodology that seeks to extract insights from all that Big Data by applying tried-and-true scientific methods. One of the most exciting part of data science is that it can be applied to just about any domain of knowledge, given our newfound ability to gather valuable data on almost any topic.

By Irving Wladawsky-Berger

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