Big Data

Abstract

The topic of Big Data is today extensively discussed, not only on the technical ground. This also depends on the fact that Big Data are frequently presented as allowing an epistemological paradigm shift in scientific research, which would be able to supersede the traditional hypothesis-driven method. In this piece, I critically scrutinize two key claims that are usually associated with this approach, namely, the fact that data speak for themselves, deflating the role of theories and models, and the primacy of correlation over causation. My intention is both to acknowledge the value of Big Data analytics as innovative heuristics and to provide a balanced account of what could be expected and what not from it. in the study of and colon cancer, search for in to identify lists of self-explanatory. specific methodologies for interpreting the data are open to all sorts of philosophical debate. Can the data represent an «objective truth» or is any interpretation necessarily biased by some subjective filter or the way that data is «cleaned»?