I'm as excited as the next blogger about Wolfram|Alpha. One thing I'd like to add to the discussion is the notion of data literacy. The traditional UI for search is one dimensional. The value of the data in the web (and the extended notion of the data web) is multi-dimensional. Effort is required on the part of the user to become data literate - being comfortable with results that are not lists. I don't think we will get to all the value in the web if we wait around for AI to arrive (which is Google's strategy). Rather I believe that a commitment from both users and vendors to provide data rich interactions with the web will get us there.
« Tell me something I dont know! | Main | About those twitter numbers : part 2 »
April 26, 2009
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c994053ef01156f5da548970c
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Search and data literacy:
Comments
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
May 2012
Recent Posts
- 5 Hidden Skills for Big Data Scientists
- Zero Tolerance Search : 24 year old neuroscientist
- Excellent Visualization of Network Effect
- Graphing Twitter Attention
- Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 Problem - A Solution
- Finding New Story Links Through Blog Clustering
- Local Lens : A Hyperlocal Retrospective
- Search Engine Land's Mediocre Post on Local Search
- Tracking Microsoft - Weekly Roundup
- Lumia Review Cluster
Categories
- aaai2007
- advertising
- affect
- AI
- alexa
- aol
- ask
- astronomy
- attenex
- attensa
- attentio
- bbc
- bing
- blogburst
- bloglines
- blogosphere
- blogpulse
- blogs
- boards
- boardtracker
- boingboing
- Books
- browserWars
- buzzlogic
- buzzmetrics
- calendaring
- china
- clustering
- CoComment
- colbert
- comments
- computer graphics
- Conferences
- Content
- d8taplex
- data engines
- datamining
- DataMiningElements
- datasphere
- dataviz
- dataweb
- dell
- design
- digg
- document analysis
- economics
- edgeio
- farecast
- fastreams
- featuredhyperlocalpost
- feedburner
- Film
- findory
- flickr
- followthemoney
- foo
- Games
- geocoding
- gigapan
- GIS
- GIS data
- graphs
- GUI
- history
- hoosgot
- html5
- humour
- hyperlinkedsociety
- hyperlocal
- icerocket
- icwsm
- icwsm2008
- icwsm2011
- image exploration
- infographics
- informationextraction
- intelliseek
- iPad
- iphone
- katrina
- kdd
- klostu
- lijit
- linguistics
- linkrank
- listing
- liveearth
- livejournal
- livelabs
- local
- longtail
- machinelearning
- marketingIntelligence
- mashups
- measuremap
- memeorandum
- memetrackers
- microblogging
- microformats
- microsoft
- mobile
- Music
- nasa
- news
- nlp
- notfree
- nsa
- online personal media
- opendata
- OS
- oscars
- pdf2008
- philosophy
- photosynth
- podcast
- podcasting
- politics
- powerset
- predictions2006
- pronto
- psychology
- pubsub
- ranking
- recovery2
- reverbiage
- rojo
- rss
- Science
- search
- search-problems
- semanticweb
- sentiment mining
- site statistics
- sketchup
- social software
- socialmedia
- socialnetworks
- software
- sotb
- space
- spam
- sphere
- spinn3r
- spongecell
- Sports
- spotplex
- statistics
- superbowl
- swivel
- tableunderstanding
- tag
- tagging
- tagnorati
- tags
- tagtastic
- tailrank
- technorati
- Television
- text mining
- timeseries
- topix
- Travel
- turn
- typepad
- umbria
- video
- vivisimo
- VoIP
- web2.0
- WebApplications
- Weblogs
- wikipedia
- wired
- worldcup
- yahoo
- youtube
- zerotolerancesearch
- zonetag
Spoken like a true HCIR advocate!
Posted by: Daniel Tunkelang | April 26, 2009 at 04:02 PM