1 year ago

In complex data systems — plenty of which have grown to gigantic caches of billions of facts about the smallest links in the biggest chains — almost any fact in which anyone may be interested can be specified in terms of https://thenewstack.io/walking-in-a-graph-database-and-the-meaning-it-holds/. By “graph,” I mean a way to literally draw the route in a system to where a fact may be obtained.

In the systems we have, there are often too many unrelated facts.

What they actually end up doing is data engineering; painfully connecting dots before they can do anything that adds value.

When it’s time for you to get insights out of your data, the structure of your data network becomes the solution, not the limitation.