Data Explosion, Data Nature and Dataology - Brain Informatics - page 152

Culture and Society

Computer
Science
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Technology

Real Nature Data Nature

Fig. 3. The culture and society based on both real nature and data nature

many fields are studied in science , it is dicult to answer; if he asks which paper
is associated with each other in science or what is indicated by all the papers
in science , it is more dicult to answer. Therefore, we say that science itself is
a valuable research topic. Science has been digitized and stored into computer
systems in the form of data. It forms a “data tribe” or “region” like human
tribe or region in real nature. Similarly, a library, a DNA database and a DOD
(Department of Defense) system are bigger data tribes or regions which need us
to explore and study.
In fact, we will face the following problems in data nature:
- How to recognize data nature?
- How to recognize real nature through data nature?
- How to live in both data nature and real nature?
- How to recognize whether the contents of data nature truly represent the
real nature?
- How to develop and utilize data nature for the part superior to real nature?

Human existing foundation is material, that is, all the basic necessities of life,
such as clothing, food, shelter and transportation, are based on materials. Com-
puter systems have changed the foundation, for example, life habit, thinking,
standpoint, morality, law, etc., have been changed. People rely increasingly on
data in computers rather than the materials. Now human lives have been occu-
pied by more and more data.

4 Dataology

4.1 What Is Dataology?

As mentioned above, the research achievements on real nature are stored into
computer systems in the form of data which forms data nature. The exploration
on data nature will be on a higher level than before. Many principles and laws
in real nature, such as prime number , fibanacci sequence , golden ratio , pareto
principle , etc, are also available in data nature (e.g., DNA data tribe). Many
nice things in the world have been shown to us in the form of data, so now it is
necessary for us to discover them from data.
With the forming of data nature, the science and technology of exploring data
become more and more important. One significant discipline called dataology is
forming, which takes data as a research object.