How big data and AI can help you generate your scientific hypothesis

Ask a researcher what challenges they face in their everyday work, and chances are they will tell you it's about staying up to date on what's happening in their field -- keeping a close watch on what other research groups are doing and keeping an eye open for potential collaborators and new research opportunities. So how much of that work can be handed over to software? A new pilot between Elsevier and the Euretos AI platform aims to use big data and machine learning to scan millions of journal articles and hundreds of databases to make connections and suggest new hypotheses for researchers to investigate. Staying up to date is all about making the right connections and figuring out the "must-read" articles. Researchers help each other with this.