Making Data Useful
Why Data Will Disappoint You
Data expectations haven’t caught up to data economics
5 min readSep 27, 2023
To better understand a dataset, I recommend asking yourself these two questions:
- Dataset purpose: is it a museum or a storage locker?
- Dataset provenance: did you design the collection or inherit the data?
I introduced these questions in an earlier article, so now it’s time to spend a bit more time on a point worth repeating: the economics of data storage…
