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Yep. http://www.lexical.org.uk/science/thesis/ http://www.lexical.org.uk/science/thesis/. But then it's less far than you'd think. The starting-point for most
by adw 16y ago
Yep. http://www.lexical.org.uk/science/thesis/ http://www.lexical.org.uk/science/thesis/.
But then it's less far than you'd think. The starting-point for most of the ideas in the Timetric platform for us cofounders was building tools for scientists (who aren't programming specialists) to manage really obscene amounts of data. The thing is, the best scientists usually weren't the best programmers – they'd spent their time studying atoms, not bits – so there was a real problem; there were a bunch of inaccessible problems because no-one had the expertise they needed in both areas.
It's just a profligate waste of talent, really.
File off "science" for that problem and you can see where we're going with Timetric.
- msy 16y agoIs the primary audience of your product scientists? From what I can see the uses you promote seem to be primarily journalists. Are you working on a similar basis for them? ie a tool that lets them get on with writing and finding stories rather than correcting dataset anomalies? Do you see gridworks/Google Refine and tools like freebase and infochimps as competition? Panopticon? Chart.io? Sorry for the barrage of questions, my background is data vis and your business and business model fascinates me. Good to see more startups in london too!
- adw 16y agomsy: no, our primary market's people who want macro/socioeconomic/industry data – and, yes, that includes journalists (our friends at the Guardian Data Blog have done some really nice work using Timetric). It's more explaining the thought-process. An economist, or analyst, or journalist shouldn't have to be a programmer to do their job. That's our job.