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Is Web 3.0 About Taming the Deluge of Data?

26 January 2010
Is Web 3.0 About Taming the Data Deluge, or About Gimmicks?

The Social Path has an interesting post about how Web 3.0 is about “taming the deluge of data”. The author(s) wrote the post based on a presentation the author(s) had seen recently by Andrew Keen.
The author(s) write that three trends are defining “3.0″:

Aggregators: one point of entry to multiple social network sites;
Simple Sharing: easy [...]

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The Fourth Paradigm Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

16 December 2009
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

John Markoff, the author of a New York Times article called, “A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing“, writes that Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle have edited a book that discusses the “Fourth Paradigm”. The book, The Fourth Paradigm Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, is in honor of Jim Gray, who argued [...]

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Data Scientist vs. Data Manager

5 December 2009
intersection of science and technology

So, what exactly is a data scientist? How does this role compare to a data manager?
The authors of a 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) report defined five actors in data management: data users, authors, managers, scientists and funding agencies. Today, I will examine the data scientist vs. the data manager.
First, what are the shared goals [...]

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