CHAPTER 7
Data cycle step 6: Data analysis, interpretation
Models in the strict sense are not really covered in this book, but here are a few words to explain why. First of all, the term ‘model’ may be used in many different ways (even within the science realm) as much as the term ‘ontology’. One could define models as any representation of a physical ob ject (even, for instance, a scale model of a car), but in science, models are in general a representation of a hypothesis on how concepts relate to each other. Within that broad definition any representation of knowledge (down to a single assertion of the type subject-predicate-ob ject) could be regarded as a ‘model’ of a piece of knowledge. However, such a broad definition would not be very ...
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