Huayin Wang

The Theory of Data: An Introduction

The Theory of Data describes analytical quantities independently of their storage and execution. It asks which analytical points exist, what a quantity means at those points, which transformations preserve its meaning, and what information supports a later calculation. This intro...

Row, Table, and Join Are Not the Foundations of Analytical Meaning

Version 1.1 is a vocabulary revision, content-preserving: aligned with The Theory of Data, Version 4.0 — a measure is the governed family; a member of a measure is a governed series; a series is a typed binding of datums over one anchor. Nothing is altered in substance.Rows, tabl...

The Theory of Data: An Introduction

The accessible introduction to the Theory of Data. Producing values is not the same as establishing what governed analytical object those values represent. The paper introduces the ontology — particles, atom members, atoms as governed measure families, frames — and the three iden...

Row, Table, and Join Are Not the Foundations of Analytical Meaning

Rows, tables, and joins are among the most useful inventions in computing — and insufficient as the foundational concepts of analytical meaning. This position develops the distinction: a table is a storage and presentation container; analytical meaning lives in typed values at ty...