Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ?

Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by maxklein on Thursday December 31, 2009 @11:37AM (#1024485)

I think that the other commenters here are on to something with Data Mining, but they are not seeing it right. What is really needed is more than Data Mining but more of Data Abstraction. I.e, there is a LOT of different data out there. People have very different needs for it. We cannot know all the possible usecases for this data. This information has to be abstracted and simplified so that data mining apps become trivially easy for business types to write. That is a good area to be in.

If you know enough about dealing with data such that you can be one of the ones building layers on top of the data, then there is a lot of opportunity there.

5 years is a reasonable estimation for this. Before then may be a bit tough.

Another important thing to learn are Location Based Services. The problem is that the applications at the moment have not all been invented yet, and it's not clear when it will reall trickle down to the Ex-VB6 guys.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by aaronblohowiak on Thursday December 31, 2009 @02:03PM (#1024763)

The term "Data Abstraction" already has a different meaning. The "simplification" of data implies an understanding of the data, and that modification instills biases in the representation that may limit the fruitfulness of the data itself.

Letting "business types" write data mining apps is already on the market and has been for a while. Look into "Business Intelligence" applications. The verdict is that a) making it easy to do BI actually makes it very complex and b) making analysis easy does not automatically expose or explain what analysis is salient.

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