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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
Adrian Richardson | 24 June 2008
Wired.com, the digital home of Wired magazine, will interest many of you this month as there are numerous articles on the data explosion, dubbed "The Petabyte Age", with coverage of e-Science applications including astronomy and medicine, and other text-mining approaches. An article by editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete", is particularly worth reading.