COVID-19 Data Utilization in North Carolina: Qualitative Analysis of Stakeholder Experiences.

Background: As the world faced the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), medical professionals, technologists, community leaders, and policy makers sought to understand how best to leverage data for public health surveillance and community education. With this complex public health problem, North Carolinians relied on data from state, federal, and global health organizations to increase their understanding of the pandemic and guide decision-making.

Objective: We aimed to describe the role that stakeholders involved in COVID-19-related data played in managing the pandemic in North Carolina.

Scientific Training in the Era of Big Data: A New Pedagogy for Graduate Education.

The era of "big data" has radically altered the way scientific research is conducted and new knowledge is discovered. Indeed, the scientific method is rapidly being complemented and even replaced in some fields by data-driven approaches to knowledge discovery. This paradigm shift is sometimes referred to as the "fourth paradigm" of data-intensive and data-enabled scientific discovery.