Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data
I think it’s safe to say that non-PhD scientists have always played an important role in scientific eco-system but they hardly get limelight and credit they deserve. What we are seeing here is a new role for non-PhD scientists, data saviors. Currently scientific community is battling with floods of scientific data especially the life sciences domain is generating unprecedented amount of data every day (may be more than 10 terabytes of sequencing data everyday). Community is facing a huge backlog in form of unprocessed data waiting for first hand analysis. I am not in a total aggrement with the interpretation that scientist without PhD are the way of the future, actuality I think that non-PhD researchers will play a key role as data scientists, a role which will be more instrumental in enabling the science than doing the science itself. Its just not about first hand analysis of data, field is being held back by several other key issues such curation and annotation. As data scientists non-PhD research can add tremendous value to the scientific output. What do you think?
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Hello OzFebruary 11, 2012 at 5:56 pm -
Good move by Elsevier, but company need more than PR efforts to save it's ground. Why so afraid accepting the new reality, open is future.February 11, 2012 at 3:01 am
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Dear Entrepreneur, CXO of unknown start-up with uncertain business model, be grounded and humble. cheersFebruary 10, 2012 at 2:53 am
Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data http://bit.ly/dn49RS #fisheye
Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data http://bit.ly/dn49RS
RT @abhishektiwari: Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data http://bit.ly/dn49RS
RT @sysbio: Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data http://bit.ly/dn49RS #fisheye
Non-PhD scientists? http://www.abhishek-tiwari.com/2010/03/non-phd-scientists-are-only-hope-if-you.html @abhishektiwari
RT @Mark_Changizi: Non-PhD scientists? http://www.abhishek-tiwari.com/2010/03/non-phd-scientists-are-only-hope-if-you.html @abhishektiwari
hey Abishek I think it’s my T-shirt, isn’t it?
Yes, Yes this is your t-shirt, in fact I really forgot that. I could not recall when I added the photo that where it came from. Thanks for dropping by and pointing me to that.
Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data- by Fisheye Persp.. http://bit.ly/doKWIV
Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data- by Fisheye Persp.. http://bit.ly/doKWIV
Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data- by Fisheye Persp.. http://bit.ly/doKWIV