title: Big Data for cardiology: novel discovery?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Big Data promises to change cardiology through a massive increase in the data gathered and analysed; but its impact goes beyond improving incrementally existing methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The potential of comprehensive data sets for scientific discovery is examined, and its impact on the scientific method generally and cardiology in particular is posited, together with likely consequences for research and practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Big Data in cardiology changes how new insights are being discovered. For it to flourish, significant modifications in the methods, structures, and institutions of the profession are necessary.
authors.affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK viktor.ms@oii.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Viktor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mayer-Schönberger
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D015984:Causality; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D062069:Inventions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D012586:Science / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*
keywords: Big Data; Causality; Correlation; Discovery; Empirical analysis; Scientific method