Expert Reactions: Mike Cameron, Principal
Adding on to Mike’s point, users are less interested in the data than in answers to specific questions. So, unless you are a data scientist and find the data itself interesting, there is a step missing. We need a set of data mining services to determine what entities are represented in the data, and the relationships between those entities. I believe we need another layer of services on top of the data mining to move us from content to context.
Relational databases were designed to make it easy to ask specific questions of the data. The goal for the cloud is to make it easy to ask ANY question of the data. The answer might be nil, or gibberish, if the appropriate entities and relationships aren’t in the data to begin with, but the question will still be valid.
So I think the goal is to think beyond dashboards that display relationships between data entities, and to think about displaying the answers to questions asked of the data. Put that on my iPhone and I’ll be a very happy camper.
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