by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attempts to put unstructured information into a structure had their day. Goodbye to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Much of the information that people use is unstructured. Consider a novel you like. Consider a text that is the foundation of a field of study. Not much structure that is easy to ingest into a computer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2008, I have kept records of job searches, interviews, and the like. I typed those records in a Google Docs file. If I were to print it, and I am not printing it, it consumes 600 pages. It is unstructured. It is readable by humans only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I drug a copy of the text file into several of these chattering bots. When did I apply to a job with ACME Inc? What job was it? What was the outcome? Bang. Boom. Pow. Out pops the answer. The chattering bots understand the unstructured structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For years, I contemplated making a JSON or XML or something file with this information. That would allow me to query the structured information using a Structured Query Language or something. That would be the only way for me to find information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New tools. Some old problems solved. Waiting had its benefits. YAGNI (you aren’t gonna’ need it) came true in this case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Goodbye JSON, XML, and the like. You worked in your era. Times change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Attempts to put unstructured information into a structure had their day. Goodbye to them. Much of the information that people use is unstructured. Consider a novel you like. Consider a text that is the foundation of a field of study. Not much structure that is easy to ingest into a computer. Until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,374,310,106,412,23,3,292],"tags":[470,372,311,220,413,145,126,295],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-data-science","category-information","category-knowledge","category-language","category-programming","category-technology","category-tools","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-science","tag-information","tag-knowledge","tag-language","tag-programming","tag-technology","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions\/4717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}