An Evaluation of the "Data Detectives" Approach as a New Paradigm in Interdisciplinary Data Analysis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18067274Keywords:
Data Detectives, New Paradigm, Data AnalysisAbstract
This letter presents a short article discussing the "Data Detectives" approach, which has gained popularity among researchers working with complex, noisy, or incomplete datasets, and its potential contributions to scientific methodology. The term "Data Detectives" describes an investigative style that goes beyond traditional algorithmic or hypothesis-test-based data analysis, emphasizing intuition, inquiry, and context. Similar to a detective piecing together evidence at a crime scene, "Data Detectives" examine data points, distributions, outliers, and unexpected correlations as parts of a larger narrative. This approach prioritizes following clues inherent in the data over structured queries.
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