Knowledge Maps – Interesting Versus Boring - DATAVERSITY

Click to learn more about author John Singer. When designing your Knowledge Maps it certainly helps to have some interesting questions that you are trying to answer. "Build it and they will come" approaches didn't work very well for data warehouse and BI efforts and the same will be true for your Knowledge Map. Of course, you can't connect the dots if you don't collect the dots so there will be some amount of loading data into the Knowledge Map that doesn't directly produce any high value results. However, the "network effect" of continually combining data together will lead to the ability to answer more difficult questions.