DSC Weekly Digest 01 March 2022: Taxonomists Classify, Ontologists Conceptualize - DataScienceCentral.com

We're moving at the Cagle house and we're discovering that, after eight years of living at the same place, one family can collect a lot of crap. The issue came up, in discussions with my spouse, that my mother-in-law had no sense of organization -- which seemed odd because my wife's mother was the kind of person to organize wrapping paper for holidays by season and family. On the other hand, my wife, a writer, has a particular scheme for organizing the dishes in the dishwasher and for finding her books on educational theory in the house's myriad bookshelves, but has a largish pile of boxes specifically labeled "Christmas Stuff." My daughter, an artist, has bookshelves full of manga categorized by Japanese publishers, titles, and issues, has drawers designated for drawing pads, pens, buttons that she produces, and similar content. Yet her clothes are mostly scattered in her room, and games are stacked helter-skelter. If three genetically related people could have such wildly divergent ways of organizing informational content, why is it surprising that organizations with thousands of people in them have so much difficulty organizing their relevant information space?