Big Data and Open Science Data - insideBIGDATA

"This article is the fourth in an editorial series with a goal to provide a road map for scientific researchers wishing to capitalize on the rapid growth of big data technology for collecting, transforming, analyzing, and visualizing large scientific data sets. In the last article, we surveyed the big data technology stack available for scientific applications. The complete insideBIGDATA Guide to Scientific Research is available for download from the insideBIGDATA White Paper Library.  The goal of the recent trend toward open scientific data is to remove the bottleneck to discovery by providing researchers with access to a variety of key data sets across scientific disciplines and the computing infrastructure to allow scientists to easily manage and share their data and analysis. Big data technologies serve to facilitate these goals by allowing for unparalleled data storage, and analytical capabilities ... Here are some key reasons for sharing data and making scientific data open ..."