{"id":422,"date":"2025-09-09T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/how-to-model-depends-on-the-question-you-ask\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:23:06","slug":"how-to-model-depends-on-the-question-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/how-to-model-depends-on-the-question-you-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Model Depends on the Question you Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I spent a long time building identifiers for universities and companies (which was taken for ROR later) and it was a nightmare to say what a university even was. What\u2019s the name of Cambridge? It\u2019s not \u201cCambridge University\u201d or \u201cThe university of Cambridge\u201d legally. But it also is the actual name as people use it. [It&#8217;s The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge]<\/p>\n<p>The university of Paris went from something like 13 institutes to maybe one to then a bunch more. Are companies locations at their headquarters? Which headquarters?<\/p>\n<p>Someone will suggest modelling to solve this but here lies the biggest problem:<\/p>\n<p>The correct modelling depends on the questions you want to answer.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Sep\/6\/iancal\/\">simonwillison.net\/2025\/Sep\/6\/iancal\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a long time building identifiers for universities and companies (which was taken for ROR later) and it was a nightmare to say what a university even was. What\u2019s the name of Cambridge? It\u2019s not \u201cCambridge University\u201d or \u201cThe university of Cambridge\u201d legally. But it also is the actual name as people use it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}