In a very philosphical, long, but non technical piece from the AMS, provocative. A methodological danger? Worth reading.
Domenico Napoletani, Marco Panza, and Daniele C. Struppa
" ... The methodological danger is that the flood of data generated by our innumerable measuring devices may convince us that data is enough; that there is nothing beyond the microarray paradigm; and that opaque, enormous, data-driven models are the privileged way to approach phenomena, even though they become so similar to the famous map of Borges [4], which was useless, since it was as big as the geography it was supposed to describe. .... "
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