Democratization of Data Science

As I start a study of the democratization of data, and of the Wolfram Alpha Pro release I also see an on-point post by Stephen Wolfram: Launching a Democratization of Data Science.   Well put with good examples.   It is about data and math, but also about organizing human language.   Also nicely attempted  by Tableau Public, which embraces free, public visualization.

You have to have the data you want to transform into insight.  Then you have to have a means of transforming it that is as easy as possible to understand to create an initial visual, plus the means to interact cleanly and obviously with the results.   Taking that a step further, you need the math to manipulate things.

Starting with the simplest transformations, then equations, then statistics and the models beyond.    And all that needs to be backed by enough documentation to help you succeed with minimum numeric literacy.  I like the direction of all of this.