Critique of Data Science: Can data science make the scientific method obsolete?

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This thesis aims to investigate the promise of data science, and will ultimately form a fundamental critique of data science. Thereby trying to start a much needed discussion of the current use of data science, and the claim that the classical scientifc method has become obsolete because of data science

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data science; scientific method; critique; negative results; irreproducibility; Chris Anderson; feminist standpoint theory;

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