login/register

Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

see all channels for Alan Dix

Snip
summary

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal?
http://www.petrkeil.com/?p=302

Categories

/Channels/research methods

[ go to category ]

/Channels/statistics

[ go to category ]

For Snip

loading snip actions ...

For Page

loading url actions ...

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intellectually demanding then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, anyone can do it. Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” and colorful visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understand it. By contrary, thinking about theory can be pain and it requires a rare commodity: imagination.

HTML

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intellectually demanding then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, anyone can do it. Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” and colorful visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understand it. By contrary, thinking about theory can be pain and it requires a rare commodity: imagination.