There is something powerful about David's work. I remember stumbling onto it some time ago and thinking "there is a way of using this kind of communication to make information so much more accessible". Projects like the Google Public Data explorer [1] are a step in this direction but by no means are the final solution.
I find that when I am researching something I have to spend so much time wading through people's attempted (and sometimes good) prose in order to find the conclusion I need.
In an era of overwhelming data I feel like we should have a way to make common data much more accessible and David's work (despite it's potential flaws in regards to empiricism) seems to be a step in the right direction.