Source of Knowing
Where Seeds of Data Grow into Forests of Wisdom
The Record-to-Wisdom Cycle
Cultivating raw experiences into harvestable wisdom through nature’s perfect process
Record
Planting the seeds of experience—capturing raw events, activities, and observations as foundational records.
Organize
Nurturing seeds into seedlings—structuring records into fertile systems where knowledge can take root.
Analyze
Watching patterns emerge—examining organized records as they grow into understanding and insight.
Apply
Harvesting wisdom—implementing knowledge where it bears fruit in transformative action and innovation.
Knowing vs. Knowledge
🌱 Knowing: The Process
The active cultivation of understanding—the gardening of the mind where questions are planted and insights are nurtured.
- Continuous cultivation
- Active questioning
- Dynamic interpretation
- Ongoing growth
🍎 Knowledge: The Harvest
The ripe fruit of the knowing process—the tangible outcomes ready for sharing and application.
- Structured understanding
- Ripe insights
- Organized fruits
- Harvestable outcomes
Knowledge represents a multi-dimensional ecosystem of information, just as a forest represents a complex ecosystem of individual plants. Each record is a single seed, but when planted together in organized databases and carefully analyzed, they create rich ecosystems of understanding.
The more we cultivate, connect, and cross-pollinate these records—both historical and emerging—the closer we come to wisdom. This process mirrors nature’s own ETL framework: Extraction (gathering nutrients), Transformation (photosynthesis of understanding), and Loading (bearing fruit in decision-making).
Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD)
🌿 The KDD Framework
KDD emphasizes that “knowledge” is the cultivated harvest of a data-driven discovery process. As a forest represents a complex ecosystem of individual plants, knowledge represents a rich ecosystem of interconnected information.
Each piece of information—like each plant in a forest—contributes to the overall ecosystem. Through systematic cultivation of these interconnected elements, we grow comprehensive knowledge that sustains wisdom and innovation.
The Record-to-Wisdom Cycle is nature’s perfect circle. Each application generates new experiences, which become new seeds. Over seasons of recording, organizing, analyzing, and applying, we not only harvest knowledge but also cultivate wisdom—the capacity to understand ecosystems, anticipate growth patterns, and nurture innovations that bear fruit for generations.
This fertile ground is where wizening takes root and grows.
Tend the Garden of Knowing
Explore the essential processes that cultivate seeds of data into forests of wisdom
Hence, below is a schematic illustration of the process of knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD). (Source: Fayyad et.al, 1996,p27-fayyad.pdf (uhcl.edu) )
KDD emphasize “knowledge” is the end product of a data-driven discovery” (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Towards a Unifying Framework (aaai.org). As much as information is a multi-dimensional view of a record presented through databases, knowledge is a multi-dimensional view of information. Each piece of information which is a multi-dimension view of a record can tell us one dimension of the information. Â
In these website, we will explore the key components of the primary sources of knowing including recording, extracting, transforming and transferring.
This is where wizening starts.