Status Updates From The Fourth Paradigm: Data-I...

a collection of research in science fields about data generation and education on scholarly communication in the age of open source and global access. The price makes the book very accessible.

Just finished an interesting article on the coming data deluge and, tangentially, on the notion of using game play for scientific discovery. The example of "Galaxy Zoo" (a game based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) is fascinating both in its approach as well as resultant accuracy.