Hi ,
Have you used Obsidian?
A while back, I was looking for a software tool to act as an ideas database. I'd previously used Evernote, but it just wasn't working for me. Although it successfully captured my ideas, it couldn't capture the connections between them.
Then I came across Obsidian through friend-of-the-list James Turner and knew I had found the solution.
Obsidian is a "next-generation" note-taking tool that links your notes in a network structure, building a knowledge graph from your ideas. By imposing an architectural structure on your data, Obsidian makes linking your thinking (as Obsidian-guru Nick Milo puts it) much faster and easier.
And this allows you to see things you might otherwise have missed.
Here's the thing...
When I first started as a data scientist, most business data was structured data stored in an SQL data warehouse. Data warehouses were great at capturing observations, but couldn't capture the connections between them - resulting in vital information being ignored in analysis and lost to the business.
Since then, a lot has changed. And now, there is a lot more diversity in the data being collected by businesses and how it can be stored.
One, more recent, approach to data storage is the graph database, which allows business information to be connected in a knowledge graph - capturing both observations and the links
between them, and facilitating analysis that was never previously possible.
This makes it possible for businesses to draw insights they might otherwise have missed.
I recently had the
opportunity to speak to Dr Alessandro Negro, the Chief Scientist at GraphAware and author of Knowledge Graphs Applied, on Value Driven Data Science, about how knowledge graphs can increase the power of data science. You can listen to our conversation HERE.
Talk again soon,
Dr Genevieve Hayes.
