[okfn-discuss] Forget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution

[Peter Murray-Rust]

I have been pushing this idea in STEM for about 5 years under the heading
(from Jim Downing) "Long-tail science". This emphasizes the heterogeneity
and the large number of sets. In practice (at least in sciences which want
to publish data) "big data" is already recognized and even often supported
by funders. Long-tail data is a myriad of Cinderellas.


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to let folks know about this post which has just gone up:
>
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/22/forget-big-data-small-data-is-the-real-revolution/
>
> <quote>
> There is a lot of talk about “big data” at the moment. For example,
> this is Big Data Week, which will see events about big data in dozens
> of cities around the world. But the discussions around big data miss a
> much bigger and more important picture: the real opportunity is not
> big data, but small data. Not centralized “big iron”, but
> decentralized data wrangling. Not“one ring to rule them all” but
> “small pieces loosely joined”.
> </quote>
>
> Very interested to hear people's thoughts - this will be first in a series.
>
> Rufus
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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