Abstract
Whether your interests lie in scientific arenas, the corporate world, or in government, you have certainly heard the praises of big data: Big data will give you new insights, allow you to become more efficient, and/or will solve your problems. While big data has had some outstanding successes, many are now beginning to see that it is not the Silver Bullet that it has been touted to be. Here our main concern is the overall impact of big data; the current manifestation of big data is constructing a Maginot Line in science in the 21st century. Big data is not "lots of data" as a phenomena anymore; the big data paradigm is putting the spirit of the Maginot Line into lots of data. Big data overall is disconnecting researchers and science challenges. We propose No-Boundary Thinking (NBT), applying no-boundary thinking in problem defining to address science challenges.
Recommended Citation
"Big Data -- A 21st Century Science Maginot Line? No-Boundary Thinking: Shifting from the Big Data Paradigm," BioData Mining, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 1 - 5, BioMed Central, Jan 2015.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-015-0037-5
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1756-0381
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
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text
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English
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Publication Date
01 Jan 2015
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Commons
