Matt Waite on Structured Data

Look for the Nouns- make nouns into database fields
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What Do You Mean, Structure? Date and time, a location, a crime type, a victim, maybe a suspect, and a narrative of what happened which includes all those data points. Data can create a meta-story out of the collection of individual stories, all derived from structure.
Automatic or Manual? can be pulled in with robots, or hand assembled (artisinal)
Simplicity –data should model real life. If there’s only one of each team, make a team table and relate that to games, which relate to seasons (among other things)Simple urls, clean data to query, logical patterns to everything—it all comes from that structure that we started with.