--- title: A Blog About Innovation Management, Data, and Creativity from Exaptive | Platforms description: Platforms | At Exaptive, our mission is more data-driven aha moments, and we believe community, interoperability, and data make them happen. Check out our blog for useful content about innovation management software, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and data science. --- [![exaptive logo](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/Marketing%20Repo/logos/site-logo.svg)](https://www.exaptive.com/) - [Exaptation](https://www.exaptive.com/exaptations) - Products - [Exaptive Studio](https://www.exaptive.com/exaptive-studio) - [Exaptive Cognitive City](https://www.exaptive.com/cognitive-city) - Use Cases - [Innovation Management](https://www.exaptive.com/innovation-management) - [Portfolio Management](https://www.exaptive.com/portfolio-management) - [Community Coordination](https://www.exaptive.com/community-coordinator) - [Free Trial](https://www.exaptive.com/trial) - [Log In](https://my.cognitive.city) # Blog [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/arch.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/making-service-oriented-architecture-serve-data-projects-0) ## [Making Service-Oriented Architecture Serve Data Applications](https://exaptive.com/blog/making-service-oriented-architecture-serve-data-projects-0) Posted by [Mike Perez](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/mike-perez) on May 22, 2021 2:00:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Bloor Group CEO Eric Kavanagh chatted with David King, CEO and founder of Exaptive recently. Their discussion looked at the ways in which service-oriented architecture (SOA) has and has not fulfilled it's promise, especially as it applies to working with data. Take a listen or read the transcript.  [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/making-service-oriented-architecture-serve-data-projects-0) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/austin-2.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward) ## [Ethical Data Standards to Drive Society Forward](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward) Posted by [Austin Schwinn](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/austin-schwinn) on Feb 1, 2019 12:05:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) I am constantly amazed by the energy and momentum around data science. Only a few years ago, I would be met with a blank stare when I told someone I planned on going to grad school for machine learning. Today, there is no need for my “it's like computer science, linear algebra, and statistics had a combined love child” analogy as most people instantly respond with “Oh, like AI!” [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/cow.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/owning-the-full-stack-a-homesteading-analogy-on-software-innovation-and-freedom) ## [Owning the full-stack: A homesteading analogy on software, innovation, and freedom](https://exaptive.com/blog/owning-the-full-stack-a-homesteading-analogy-on-software-innovation-and-freedom) Posted by [Tom Lambert](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/tom-lambert) on Mar 2, 2018 4:00:52 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Have you ever met a homesteader who owns a mansion? Me either. My neighbor, Bill (80), *is *a homesteader who tries to be as self sufficient as possible. From what I can see, it’s an immensely rewarding and humble existence. Life-satisfaction oozes out of his every pore and, eventually, even enduring the hardships must have become rewarding to him. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/owning-the-full-stack-a-homesteading-analogy-on-software-innovation-and-freedom) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/store.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/epiphanies-on-abstraction-modularity-and-being-combinatorial) ## [Epiphanies on Abstraction, Modularity, and Being Combinatorial](https://exaptive.com/blog/epiphanies-on-abstraction-modularity-and-being-combinatorial) Posted by [Luke Tucker](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/luke-tucker) on Mar 21, 2016 10:13:08 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Six months ago I didn't understand the concept of abstraction. Now it comes up almost daily. It’s foundational to my thinking on everything from software to entrepreneurship. I can’t believe how simple it seems. When I finally grokked abstraction, it felt like my first taste of basic economics. Given a new framework, something that had always been there, intuited but blurry, came into focus. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/epiphanies-on-abstraction-modularity-and-being-combinatorial) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/dataflow.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/how-a-data-scientist-built-a-web-based-data-application) ## [How a Data Scientist Built a Web-Based Data Application](https://exaptive.com/blog/how-a-data-scientist-built-a-web-based-data-application) Posted by [Frank D. Evans](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/frank-d-evans) on Jan 10, 2016 3:22:12 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) I’m an algorithms guy. I love exploring data sets, building cool models, and finding interesting patterns that are hidden in that data. Once I have a model, then of course I want a great interactive, visual way to communicate it to anyone that will listen. When it comes to interactive visuals there is nothing better than JavaScript’s D3. It’s smooth and beautiful. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/how-a-data-scientist-built-a-web-based-data-application) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/method.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/the-data-scientific-method) ## [The Data Scientific Method](https://exaptive.com/blog/the-data-scientific-method) Posted by [Clive Higgins](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/clive-higgins) on Mar 2, 2015 10:00:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) The Oxford English Dictionary defines the scientific method as "a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses." With more scientists today than ever, the scientific method is alive and well, and generating more data than ever. This explosion of data has brought about the field of data science and an associated plethora of analytics tools. Controversially, some have claimed, such as in [this Wired magazine article](http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory), that data science is so powerful that it has made the scientific method obsolete. Google's founding philosophy is that “we don't know why this page is better than that one. If the statistics of incoming links say it is, that's good enough.” The implication is that with enough data, people will no longer need to know why something happens, it just does, and that’s good enough. Is it, really? [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/the-data-scientific-method) [![An Exaptive metaphor for where new ideas come from: Jesse Kris' data visualization of the History of Music Sampling](https://exaptive.com/hs-fs/hub/346372/file-2513459341.png)](https://exaptive.com/blog/weworkontechnologythenitworksonus) ## [We work on Technology. Then it works on us.](https://exaptive.com/blog/weworkontechnologythenitworksonus) Posted by [Dave King](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/dave-king) on Feb 19, 2015 3:18:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) I think I was 10 years old when my dad brought home our first microwave oven. It was an imposing black box that weighed a ton and had scary warning labels that mentioned radiation. The only time I had ever heard mention of radiation before was in regard to the atom bomb. We felt like we were supposed to run for cover whenever we turned it on, but, like everyone else I knew who had one, we did just the opposite. We huddled around it. We brought our noses right up to the translucent window, and watched, mesmerized in wonder, as the food inside got zapped by mysterious, limitless, invisible energy. When the timer beeped, and the door opened to reveal a steaming bowl of soup that had been cold only a minute ago, it seemed like a miracle. I remember those early days with the microwave vividly – experimenting with eggs, and chocolate syrup, and the off-limits gold-rimmed fine china that would send off an awe-inspiring barrage of orange sparks after just 15 seconds. Just 15 seconds! 15! I think that was the most important thing of all about the microwave oven – not what it did to my food, but what it did to my sense of time. 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