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What is Taming (the) Data (Deluge)?

1 December 2009
Lasso at ready, to tame the data deluge

The data deluge refers to the increasingly large and complex data sets generated by researchers that must be managed by their creators with “industrial-scale data centres and cutting-edge networking technology” (Nature 455) in order to provide for use and re-use of the data.
The lack of standards and infrastructure to appropriately manage this (often tax-payer [...]

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