Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

SQL queries are a semantics killer ***for those situations where the uncertainty inherent in semantics (Bayesian Interference) can not be eliminated and the deterministic solution ("frequentist Interference") is unavailable***.

The terms Bayesian Interference and "frequentist Interference" are defined and conceptually validated here:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem).

SPARQL queries preserve semantics by sampling the as yet unrealized deterministic solution.  In the case where the deterministic solution is known (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem), the apparently conflicting results are due to mere addition of quantum states.

The difference in "problems" is a difference in conceptual motivation (initial conditions). This is a trivial solution to chaos effects on probability calculations, which involve a rounding at some tolerance of the constant sqrt(2*PI).

Kingsley is right.  To presume the infallibility of SPARQL is an ethical hazard.  To presume that a DBMS is complete when it is not is also an ethical hazard.  Let the debate continue, if it ends we all lose.

--Gannon


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On Fri, 3/13/15, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets
 To: public-lod@w3.org
 Date: Friday, March 13, 2015, 9:05 AM
 
 On 3/12/15 5:38 PM, Paul
 Houle wrote:
 > The goal is to show that
 you can do the same things you do with a 
 > relational database,  and maybe *just* a
 little bit more.
 
 Every RDF
 store is a relational database management system (RDBMS). As
 
 you know, an RDF compliant RDBMS simply
 group sets of RDF 3-tuples by 
 statement
 predicate.
 
 We can't
 continue to concede the notion of a relational database 
 management to SQL relational database
 management systems (sets of 
 n-tuples
 grouped by Table Name).
 
 Maybe we should start referring to SPARQL
 compliant RDF stores as SPARQL 
 Relational
 Database Management Systems, just like SQL Relational 
 Database Management Systems which have now
 become synonymous with 
 Relational Database
 Management System. Then "just a little more"
 becomes 
 much closer to demonstrable
 reconciliation of "the truth, the whole 
 truth, and nothing but the truth, in regards to
 relations, databases, 
 and database
 management systems" :)
 
 ACID has nothing to do with what constitutes an
 RDBMS either, that's an 
 a useful, but
 optional feature of any RDBMS. So don't fall for that
 
 baloney laden push-back when taking the
 SPARQL RDBMS position.
 
 We
 MUST end the SQL RDBMS power-grab! It has done a major
 disservice to 
 the entire DBMS industry,
 over the last 40+ years. You have a 
 multi-billion dollar industry that's
 fundamentally about companies and 
 individuals that are data-access-heavy and
 data-exploitation-challenged 
 i.e., they
 have tons of data ("Big Data" these days), but
 still can't 
 achieve basic agility goals
 in regards to: accessing, integrating, and 
 moving data effectively to the right people, at
 the right time, in the 
 right form, and in
 appropriate context etc..
 
 Links:
 
 [1] http://bit.ly/spasql-sql-querying-based-on-sparql-table-relation
 -- 
 demonstrating that relations are
 relations (even when the underlying 
 tuple
 organizations vary e.g., when organized as sql relational
 tables 
 or rdf statements graphs) .
 
 [2] http://www.openlinksw.com/c/9C5DNHYW --
 Relation .
 
 [3] http://www.openlinksw.com/c/9BVTLIAG --
 SQL Relation .
 
 [4] http://www.openlinksw.com/c/9BH3NH7S --
 RDF Relation.
 
 [5] http://www.openlinksw.com/c/9BDLVDX3 --
 Differentiating "Database" 
 (a
 Document comprised of sets of Relations [Data] ) from
 "Database 
 Management System"
 (software for indexing and querying culled from 
 Database Documents).
 
 -- 
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