Plenty of people have foreseen the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis, but when computers become good enough to understand literature, art and human history, will it ...

This vintage image depicts three musicians playing Yankee Doodle Dandy during the American Revolution. In a May 2011 special research report, Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, ...

Big data refers to extremely large and complex data sets that are so massive and intricate they cannot be managed or analyzed by traditional data processing tools. In life sciences, these vast ...

Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety. Researchers assign various measures of importance to each of the metrics, sometimes treating them equally, ...