Big data and the end of theory? | News | guardian.co.uk
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Does big data have the answers? Maybe some, but not all, says Mark Graham.
In 2008, Chris Anderson, then editor of Wired, wrote a provocative piece titled The End of Theory. Anderson was referring to the ways that computers, algorithms, and big data can potentially generate more insightful, useful, accurate, or true results than specialists or
domain experts who traditionally craft carefully targeted hypotheses
and research strategies.