Gigascience: A Science Journal That Provides Full Data Sets
A few weeks ago I visited the Hong Kong headquarters of the biomedical journal, Gigascience. The journal was established in 2012 with funding from the Chinese company BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute). A few weeks ago I visited the Hong Kong h ...
Data Infrastructures
It is obvious to say that big data rely on computers. It would be practically impossible to implement big data algorithms with pencil and paper – it would just take too much paper and too long to write all the data down. It is obvious to say that big data ...
Why Big Data Requires the Social Sciences
This is the first in a series of posts that will examine the big data phenomenon from the point of view of the social sciences (I am historian by training, but I will also try to bring in perspectives from sociology, anthropology, and philosophy). This is ...