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Chapter 1
Introduction
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discovery in science and the importance of
heterogeneous data analytics in aiding that discovery. As the vol-
ume of scientific data and literature increases exponentially, scientists
need ever-more powerful tools to process and synthesize that infor-
mation in a practical and meaningful way. But in addition, scientists
need a methodology that takes all the relevant information in a given
problem area—all the available evidence—and processes it in order to
propose the set of potential new hypotheses that are most likely to be
both true and important. This book describes a method for achieving
this goa ...