Big data: Distilling meaning from data (original) (raw)

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Buried in vast streams of data are clues to new science. But we may need to craft new lenses to see them, explain Felice Frankel and Rosalind Reid.

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  1. Felice Frankel is senior research fellow in the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. With G. M. Whitesides, she is co-author of On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science. felice_frankel@harvard.edu ,
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  2. Rosalind Reid is executive director of the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard University and former Editor of American Scientist.,
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Frankel, F., Reid, R. Big data: Distilling meaning from data.Nature 455, 30 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455030a

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