After a multi-year hiatus, I am dusting off the blog. Since my last note, my company (Nico Networks) was purchased by The Washington Post Company. My partner and I joined what became WaPo Labs. This move afforded me the opportunity to operationalize my thoughts and ideas faster than I could document them (how's that for an excuse?).
Through this experience, we were able to iterate and expand upon many of the ideas discussed to date in this blog. However, instead of being limited to political campaigning, we were afforded the resources of one of the largest media organizations in the world. As opportunity expanded, so too did the ideas...
Reflecting back, a common thread throughout has been the application of information culled from data. The earliest applications we did on behalf of our largest client, Catalist, were built upon their voter file data. At Labs, the team continues to expand and iterate on the application of information extracted from past activity streams, and from deep text analytics happening on the company's vast corpus of content built over decades. We accomplished a great deal, and I am excited to see what continues to come from what is an amazing and very talented group of innovators.
We are only at the beginning of what has already been coined as the information economy. The technology and expertise to efficiently extract usable information from the growing data sets that are emerging around the world is just being discovered. As more data becomes structured, more interesting and never-before-seen deductions and associations can be made. As new technologies and capabilities are applied, new stories can be told.
The brave new world is emerging, and I am excited to be a part of it, to continue to explore how information from data can change the world. More to come...
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