Data Visualization: The Data Industry by Sean Gonzalez.
From the post:
In any industry you either provide a service or a product, and data science is no exception. Although the people who constitute the data science workforce are in many cases rebranded from statistician, physicist, algorithm developer, computer scientist, biologist, or anyone else who has had to systematically encode meaning from information as the product of their profession, data scientists are unique from these previous professions in that they operate across verticals as opposed to diving ever deeper down the rabbit hole.
Sean identifies five (5) market segments in data science and a visualization product for each one:
- New Recruits
- Contributors
- Distillers
- Consultants
- Traders
See Sean’s post for the details.
Have you identified market segments and the needs they have for topic map based data and/or software?
Yes, I said their needs.
You may want a “…more just, verdant, and peaceful world” but that’s hardly a common requirement.
Starting with a potential customer’s requirements is more likely to result in a sale.