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Chapter 2
Why Accelerate
Discovery?
Scott Spangler and Ying Chen
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emerging in science due to too much data. On the
surface, this sounds like an odd problem for a scientist to have. Aer
all, science is all about data, and the more the better. Scientists crave data;
they spend time and resources collecting it. How can there be too much
data? Aer all, why can scientists not simply ignore the data they do not
need and keep the data they nd useful?
But therein lies the problem. Which data do they need? What data will
end up proving useful? Answering this question grows more dicult with
increasing data availability. And if data ...