Hi Jan, On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Jan Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > In a more general perspective, it seems to me that becoming more > independent from data is an indicator of progress in scientific > understanding. If we don't understand a thing or phenomenon, all we can > do is gather and record data. But once we have a principled scientific > model, we can predict the phenomenon in question, and deduce from the > model which data is necessary for the prediction. And computing often > has great potential to facilitate such progress. From this perspective, > "dissociation" from data is not necessarily a bad thing.
Data science is about taking the reverse approach (I guess it's the good old inverse problem). It's exciting to investigate scientific topics from both ends. Cheers, Marianne _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
