The Inconclusive Data We’re Throwing Away

We have a problem with the World Wide Web: Everything is very inefficient.

Here’s what I mean: I work on something, it gets published to the web, I get paid. But so often it gets published and nobody reads it. The culprit? The World Wide Web is chaos. That’s kind of sad, and to me, this is the definition of inefficiency.

Ever felt that frustration when you’re searching for something online and can’t find what you need?

I did. So I worked on a project that tried to evolve information retrieval. I was fed up with how inefficient my research had become, even with Google. But what worried me more was discovering that this frustration is everywhere in academia. Negative results get swept under the table and forgotten.

I spent 2 years on this project. Ultimately, it didn’t succeed.

I didn’t think the project had bad objectives, but for now, it’s been kept secret. That awesome project is on ice.

I do everything in my power so at least I can repurpose my negative results into content.

This is one image I will explain in one of my post series, and dive a bit into the issue of information accessibility. We’re sitting on mountains of Big Data that nobody can actually use.

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