The amount of scientific data is doubling every year. Alexander Szalay and Jim Gray analyse how scientific methods are evolving from paper notebooks to huge online databases.
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Towards 2020 Science (Microsoft, 2006); http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science
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Szalay, A., Gray, J. Science in an exponential world. Nature 440, 413–414 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440413a
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