What is Dark Data, Why Does it Matter, and Why Are Humans Still Needed?
Timo Elliott
JANUARY 3, 2022
Back in the 1960s, a pair of radio astronomers were busily collecting data on distant galaxies. They had been doing this for years. Elsewhere, other astronomers had been doing the same. But what set these astronomers apart – and eventually earned them a Nobel Prize – was what they eventually found in the data. Like other radio astronomers, they had long detected a consistent noise pattern.
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