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Nature’s special issue on ‘big data’

The Big Data special package of articles in this week’s issue of Nature (4 September 2008) looks at how massive influxes of data are changing the way science is done in many fields, and includes a feature story on ‘Wikiomics’ that might be of particular interest to the scientists who work with “web 2.0” tools. Coping with floods of data is now one of science’s biggest challenges, so the Nature special issue assess the need to complement smart science with smart searching; looks at what the next Google will be; interviews the pioneering biologists who are trying to use wiki-type web pages to manage and interpret data; and recalls that the first mass data crunchers were not computers, but the remarkable women of Harvard’s Observatory. 

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