Data Without A Cause Is Doomed To Fail Us

Sarah Thomas
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Published in
7 min readSep 19, 2020

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In 2008 the World Economic Forum reported the beginning of a new age, that of big data. Enter the zettabyte, a 9.57 trillion gigabytes unit of information that we now had available for processing.

A Brief History Of Big Data referred to another article from 2007 that heralded in a new age, The End Of Theory in Wired, where obsolete scientific methods could be replaced with enormous datasets.

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