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Plenty of people have foreseen the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis, but when computers become good enough to understand literature, art and human history, will it spell the end for the humanities academic?
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A lot has been written about the ways that big data has changed scientific enquiry, but as supercomputers increase in power and the tools to use them become less obtuse, whole new academic disciplines are beginning to feel the benefits of crunching data.
Believe it or not, some people even think we can forecast the future with big data. Predicting world-changing events is a possibility, some claim, if you treat society and history like a big data problem. It's how big data analyst Kalev Leetaru found where Osama bin Laden had been hiding, in a way.