Data Aggregation & Data Discovery - Part II
Expanding on the context of Data Aggregation , variously called data refinery, data factory or data lake, I would like to analyze if the concept of Data Aggregation is just a theoretical construct or if there is a practical side to this. My opinion is that Data Aggregation (regardless of how it is referred to) is just a means to an end; an enabler or precursor for Data Discovery . This is truly a facility to bring together various types of disconnected sources of data that were previously leveraged in very “targeted” use cases. The idea being to discover new connections or to explore new usage patterns. These explorations might belong to the realm of identifying proactive growth opportunities or in the domain of preemptive loss prevention. Data scientists are able to employ statistical algorithms and predictive modeling techniques to see if new patterns emerge or else to see they are able to ferret out alternate connections. One also can imagine the use of clustering an