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Slide Title: Scientific Data Exploration

Slide Words:
Thousand years ago: science was empirical describing natural phenomena
Last few hundred years: theoretical branch using models, generalizations
Last few decades: a computational branch simulating complex phenomena
Today: data exploration is emerging synthesizing theory, experiment and computation with advance data management and statistics

Slide Source: NSF and Alex Szalay

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