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This is a guest post by David Hales, a fellow associate of the new complexity think-tank, Synthesis. David specialises in computational social science and here he provides a thought-provoking response to the rise in big data, and some of the more outlandish claims made about it. For a good example of the latter, see Chris Anderson's piece 'The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete'. He makes some really relevant points for development big data initiatives.

Ever since his grad student days at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Amir Ronen, now a scientist at IBM Research -  Haifa, has been thinking about the intersection of game theory and computer science. In fact, he's one of the leaders in a sub-discipline, called algorithmic game theory, which lies at the intersection of the two fields.