Thinking of stocks, I find it hard to articulate how this pyramid might correspond to predicting market value of a company. To give it a try:
Traders predict the value of a stock.
The stock is evaluated at all times by the market buy\sell prices. But that is self referential and does not encompass “real” data. The value of a stock is “really evaluated” when a company distributes dividends, goes bankrupt, or anything that collapses a stock to actual money.
The ontology is the methods by which stocks get actual money.
Foundational understanding is the economic theory involved.
[After writing this down, this feels more natural to need a pyramid in this case also (even though I initially guessed that I would find the lower layers unnecessary), or more precisely—it is very useful to think about this pyramid to see how we can improve the system.]
Thinking of stocks, I find it hard to articulate how this pyramid might correspond to predicting market value of a company. To give it a try:
Traders predict the value of a stock.
The stock is evaluated at all times by the market buy\sell prices. But that is self referential and does not encompass “real” data. The value of a stock is “really evaluated” when a company distributes dividends, goes bankrupt, or anything that collapses a stock to actual money.
The ontology is the methods by which stocks get actual money.
Foundational understanding is the economic theory involved.
[After writing this down, this feels more natural to need a pyramid in this case also (even though I initially guessed that I would find the lower layers unnecessary), or more precisely—it is very useful to think about this pyramid to see how we can improve the system.]