In the Era of Big Data, More Isn't Just More, More is Different

Hegel argued that Quantity becomes Quality when the number is large enough to stimulate a change in our understanding of reality. Wired argues in a series of essays, The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different, that our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. Check out The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete, Winning the Lawsuit: Data Miners Dig for Dirt and Visualizing Big Data: Bar Charts for Words. [JH]