Data Science

Tautologies in Data

Why data ≠ analysis

As I researched some applications for data in precision medicine, I came across an interesting claim in “From Big Data to Precision Medicine” an article in Frontiers in Medicine. The article states:

“However, ‘Big data’ no longer means what it once did. The term has expanded and now refers not to just large data volume, but to our increasing ability to analyze and interpret those data. Tautologies such as ‘data analytics’ and ‘data science’ have emerged to describe approaches to the volume…