Content Science: It's a Thing

You've heard about data science. Have you heard anything about content science?

Imagine creating a briefing summation that rolls up three Coda documents and presents the state of the information in a shared report with executives. The report includes high-level charts based on data tables in the documents and may even include a chat feature that allows users to ask questions not specifically expressed in the report aggregation.

This is content science. It’s like data science but it’s an extension of AGI.

While these are desperately needed functionalities, I have begun to recognize the sharing horizon is wafting up mirage-like ripples affecting my vision of what it means to “share” parts of documents and data.

I have seen glimpses representing the future of sharing in various communities, and it has changed my perspective concerning logical reflections of information. A good way to think about this challenge is to embrace the nature of data science. We use aggregations to distill and reflect upon information sets that are often so large there is no alternative approach - we must aggregate. Data science has helped us master the art of data aggregation to tell stories.

Why aren’t we applying the same techniques to documents and text?