To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
With the new database-based science, there is often no moment when the complex becomes simple enough for us to understand it. The model does not reduce to an equation that lets us then throw away the model. You have to run the simulation to see what emerges.
The driving force of Big Data is transforming the concept of knowledge in way that will have deep and profound consequences for science. But most likely not for how we run our daily lives…
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