A Preliminary Review of Influential Works in Data-Driven Discovery [pdf]

The submitted url is to the old version of this paper and should be changed.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08776

With arxiv.org, it's always best to link to the abstract page rather than the PDF since the abstract page will show all available versions. It also gives people chance to read the abstract before deciding to download the paper.

Time to talk again about data-driven scientific discovery or The Fourth Paradigm: this paper from Palo Alto is very recent, 30 Mar 2015, and provides us with valuable insight: the hottest fields and the most-cited references. What do you think about? Is all this going to be commercial (exponential with entry barriers) or open source (linear with horizontal access)?