Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Drowning in data

Are our data tools and systems managing to keep up with all the numbers – that question is suddenly much in the air.

For example a special series of articles in Science on Dealing with Data.

And, from a different angle, over on Floating Sheep there are worries about how to map and measure, study and critique that ‘increasingly ephemeral tool’, the Google search, which is becoming more personal, more social & more volatile – changing in real time.