Everything is Miscellaneous

Chapter 05: the laws of the jungle dtc356-01

September 08, 2015

1. Find a partner 2. Without using outside sources 3. Come up with a working definition of miscellaneous.

Creating taxonomies is expensive, tedious, and time consuming.

Creating taxonomies is expensive.

Social Tags don’t create trees. They’re messy, uncontrolled,

and inconsistent.

This can create accuracy problems:

• Andrew Prokhorov • Andrew Prohorov

You can also lose nesting capabilities.

Example: search for restaurant reviews in:

• 98686 • Vancouver, WA • Clark County • Hazel Dell • Salmon Creek

Filter on the way out, not on the way in.

Put each leaf on as many branches as

possible.

Everything is metadata and

everything can be a label.

Give up control.