Thread by @convequity

1/6 $PLTR's technological advantages can be described in a few ways, though we think it's their ontological skills that underpins most of what they can do.

An ontology is a shared vocabulary or language that maps out relationships between things.

2/6 The Internet has advanced thanks to various ontologies.

Without an ontology your search engine wouldn't be able to find & retrieve information from websites.

Ontologies are also needed to make social networks/ecommerce sites work - so people can find other people/products.

3/6 Just imagine not having a comprehensive ontology across the Internet.

You're surfing the web & can only access some websites and not others. Or can't access some pages on a website.

Trying to find the info you require would be very frustrating.

4/6 Well that's what it's often like when you might want to find info in your own company.

Fragmented siloes of data that can't be reached or are unknown about completely.

& this occurs due to a lack of ontology that can provide a universal vocabulary to connect the data.

5/6 So, this is what $PLTR does. It goes into these companies & overlays a blanket-like ontology to map out relationships so things can reach each other.

Apart from big tech not many others have the capability to do their own ontology coz it's super hard.

6/6 Usually it requires a consortium of entities to work together, like for RDF and FOAF ontologies.

So, we see this as a key comp/tech advantage for $PLTR that won't be emulated anytime soon.