Data-Intensive Science

CHAPTER 2

Where Does All the Data Come From?

Geoffrey Fox, Tony Hey, and Anne Trefethen

CONTENTS

2.1    Introduction

2.2    An Explosion of Data in Our Lives

2.3    Research Data from Observations

2.3.1    Astronomy: The Square Kilometer Array

2.3.2    Astronomy: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

2.3.3    Earth Observation Data

2.3.4    Oceanographic Data

2.3.5    Earthquake Science

2.3.6    Polar Science

2.4    Data from Experimentation and Instruments

2.4.1    Particle Physics: The Large Hadron Collider

2.4.2    Photon Sources

2.4.3    Neutron Scattering and the Long Tail

2.4.4    European Bioinformatics Institute

2.4.5    High-Throughput Gene Sequencing

2.5    Data from Simulations

2.5.1    Data from Weather and Climate Simulations