The Credo Of Data

Data malleable, thought space, essential, contrived, exasparating, useful ...

Data wants to be promiscuous

Merging, linking, finding insight

Supporting facts

Annoying differences

Hypotheses

All data is used to confirm (or deny?) existing ideas

Hypotheses can be useful to prove, but even better disprove an idea

Always moving

Understanding data is a journey not a destination

Every answer creates at more questions

Structure and Data are the same

Data on its own is worthless, it has to be ‘refined’ like oil to be useful.

Data needs structure to be useful

Data wants to be promiscuous.

Build Capacity in your community

Data literacy is generally poor, that’s the world we work in, so we have to improve

Data democracy implies we should all have the same access, understanding and tools, regardless of our size

We are teaching people to read the data at the same time as teaching them what the data means.

Our time is finite

Too much time is spent wrangling data – this is wrong

Explaining data should be the majority

Identify what preparation work can be automated