Big data and its epistemology

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 651-661

  Frické, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

knowledge

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING;

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT; EXTENSIVE TESTING; INDUCTIVE ALGORITHMS; INDUCTIVE INFERENCE; KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; SCIENTIFIC THEORIES; STATISTICAL MODELING;

BIG DATA;

ASPIRATION; CHIMERA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84944159210     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23212     Document Type: Article

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