Down in the Data Dumps: Researchers Inventory a World of Information
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 15:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Data is the common currency that unites all fields of science. As science progresses data proliferates, providing points of reference, revealing trends, and offering evidence to substantiate hypotheses. Decades into the digitization of science, however, data is proliferating exponentially, at times threatening to drown knowledge and information in a sea of noise. [More]