How Not to Get Lost in 2018 with Knowledge Graphs: Map, Graph, Go! - DATAVERSITY

Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Losing your way is easy. Much of Data Modeling in the search, analytics and reporting spaces have been focused on the fabulous five W-words. We have been throwing technologies at this for quite some years now: Plain old Data Modeling, Semantics, "hyperindexes", ontologies, topic maps, Data Warehouses, Operational Data Stores, multidimensional OLAP, mapping-intensive ETL, key/value pairs, Big Data and now also Data Catalogs, Data Lakes, and Knowledge Graphs. Even alerts and exception reporting have been baked into reporting and analytics solutions for quite some time now. That must be because the "what is new?" question has a bit higher priority than the other ones as business moves on.