What does it really mean to 'democratize data'? There are many bottlenecks to making data more accessible including: opening up data sources, standardizing and tagging data for discovery, enabling "data science" and predictive analytics to turn data into action, or data visualization / analytics tools that help communicate the data. From a business perspective, does 'democratizing data' mean 'commoditizing data'? From a sociological perspective, how would our individual lives change if data were more accessible to any small business or consumer? What are the next big bottlenecks to democratizing data?
