Big Data to Change Theory and Science

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The Paris Tech Review looks at the prospects and promise of Big Data.

Beyond the technological impact, Big Data is deeply changing the way scientists work. As explained by Jannis Kalinikos, professor of information systems at the London School of Economics, “the development of knowledge (and more generally, the making of sense) is driven by permutations and commutations performed on huge masses of data. This is a well-known tendency in the field of social sciences, but it extends now to all domains.

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