Seeing The Big Picture

There is a parable about seeing the big picture, and it goes something like this …

"A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them knew its shape and form.
Out of curiosity, they said: "We must inspect it and know it by touch". So, they sought it out, and when they found it, they groped about it.
The first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said "this being is like a thick snake".
For another one, whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a fan.
Another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, "the elephant is a pillar like a tree trunk".
The blind man who placed his hand upon its side said that "the elephant is a wall".
Another who felt its tail described it as a rope.
The last felt its tusk and stated that the elephant is hard, smooth and like a spear."

…I think that this ancient tale may tell us something important about the modern data landscape.

Some of us are talking about Data Meshes, while others are talking about Semantic Layers and yet another group is talking about Enterprise Search etc. I can’t help wondering if we aren’t all just talking about different aspects of the same thing.

I guess I am biased, but to me, when each aspect is connected together then they combine to form one thing: a Knowledge Graph.