Abstract:

Big data has become a new technology, which has drawn much attention of media and public. Widely applications of big data indicated that the information age will enter into a new stage. However, the understanding of big data is a process of deepening. The big data from the height of “new information age stage”, data culture and epistemology was expounded. Then how to correctly understand the value and benefit of big data through the explanation of driving effect and wisdom in cyberspace was discussed. The challenges for the research and application of big data technology from the angle of the complexity were analyzed. Finally, some views on avoiding the pitfalls when developing big data technologies were proposed.

Key words: big data, epistemology, wisdom in cyberspace, complexity