大数据研究中的两个流派及两类大数据——基于案例的研究

 关于大数据的研究,学界已经形成了泾渭分明且针锋相对的两个大数据流派--激进派与保守派。通过对2个经典大数据案例的研究,发现“大数据”实际上指称两类既有区别又有联系的对象,一类是“用数据的方法研究科学”,另一类是“用科学的方法研究数据”。两类大数据及二者存在的显著差异,是形成激进派与保守派两种阵营的原因。在归纳了两类大数据各自特点的基础上,提出了从根本上消除目前这种对立且混乱的认识现状,并将大数据研究推向深水区的路径。

Two schools of big data research and two types of big data:A case study

In the research of big data, two distinct and diametrically opposed academic schools have emerged, namely radicalism and conservatism. Through an analysis of two typical cases, this article finds that the so-called "big data" actually refers to two types of "big data", one is to study data in a scientific way, and the other is to study science in a data way. It is the existence of the two types of big data that forms the two camps of activism and conservatism. The types of big data and their significant difference are the reasons of the formation of radicalism and conservatism camps. On the basis of summarizing the characteristics of the two kinds of big data, this paper puts forward the only approach that may eliminate the antagonism and confusion and push the big data research further.