Putting concepts and data together again

Franck Varenne (1)

1 ERIAC - Équipe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Aires Culturelles

Data do not belong to predictive analytics only. Neither do concepts belong to theoretical modeling only. This talk will explore and question the changing relationships between data and concepts in models today, especially in the case of multiscale models. It will show that there are different types of integrative models, and that some are new. These new integrative models take their part in a cycling methodology of modeling where measures, estimations, reconstructions, simulations, concept-driven models and mathematics interact and take their part too.

Mots clés: Concept-driven models; Data-driven models; Multiscale models; Integrative models; Philosophy of science

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation; Philosophie; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Biologie du développement

Franck Varenne. Putting concepts and data together again: on some new integrative models in the era of big data. Complex Systems Digital Campus ’15 – World e-Conference - From Molecules to Organisms and Ecosystems, Paul Bourgine; Nadine Peyriéras, Sep 2015, Paris, France. ⟨hal-03399015⟩