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This : totally, we don't understand data, or data bases. We've only had them for 20 years really, we don't understand the lifecycle or how value is accumulated
by sgt101 8y ago
This : totally, we don't understand data, or data bases. We've only had them for 20 years really, we don't understand the lifecycle or how value is accumulated or destroyed and we don't understand the composite behaviour or the dynamics with the users.
There is a crossover : data science is often about constructing data resources from other data resources (and then advanced analysis like : count how many x) doing this rigorously and efficiently and with regard to the underlying infrastructures and other users (don't kill production) is a big trick.
- mnem 8y agoI think databases and analysis have been around a little longer than 20 years...
- sgt101 8y agoNot in their current form : we got relational systems in 1970, but data warehousing came in in the mid 90's. The use of data for multiple purposes (not just to underpin one grand application) is relatively new - as is the practice of using data for a purpose for which it was not gathered... remember all the "all the statistician can do is pronounce what has gone wrong" stuff?