by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes we get a bit carried away with this idea of being a data-centric organization or data centricity or data driven or whatever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems that everyone wants a data-centric organization (and I don’t like that term because the computer marks it as a misspelled word). We need to have data centricity (another word marked as misspelled). We should base all decisions on data!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wow. Cutting edge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I was a kid, my mother would drag my brothers and me to the grocery store. That was a necessity for her, not a choice. She would pick up one can of pork and beans. 39\u00a2. She would pick up the next can of pork and beans with a different label on it. 49\u00a2. She bought the 39\u00a2 can based on data. She was running a data-centric family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now come the “yeah but.” That was a silly example. Yeah, but that was how it was. For a few years my mother was really data driven as she carried a little clicker that kept a running total cost of the what was in the grocery cart. Aha! Cumulative data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My mother was far ahead of her time in this data stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are organizations out there that are run by the seat-of-the-pants or some other cliche meaning they feel their way through everything and never consider any numbers. Being in engineering, I have always worked with measurable quantities (6 volts, not 8 volts), calculations, and results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Data can be important. It was important to my mother as she didn’t have much money. People have used data daily to decide which way to go. Data-driven decisions are not new. Let’s not get carried away with this as a new driver that drives us in some great direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we get a bit carried away with this idea of being a data-centric organization or data centricity or data driven or whatever. It seems that everyone wants a data-centric organization (and I don’t like that term because the computer marks it as a misspelled word). We need to have data centricity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,269,367,9],"tags":[372,270,366,132],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-science","category-decide","category-history","category-management","tag-data-science","tag-decide","tag-history","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}