Why does data have combinatorial power?
- Why does data have combinatorial power?
- The power of combinatorics of data is more about the likelihood of peanut butter / chocolate combinations.
- Peanut butter and chocolate combinations: better than either alone, but not obvious until you try it.
- That is, it's not that all data is useful for all other data.
- It's the likelihood of finding a discontinuously useful insight scales with the number of possibly interesting combinations.
- Interesting combinations are structurally more likely to come from different sources.