What does “life” mean for data, and why should anyone care? I’ve been insistent that neither the technology nor the analytics function manages the entire lifecycle of data and how that creates a critical gap, like in this blog here. This poses the question of what we mean by a “data lifecycle” and subsequently, whether data has “life” at all. The data lifecycle Clearly, we have applied the idea of life to many things that are not alive in the biological sense. I think we know data is not biologically alive. But we do not think of it as something…...
Data and the Meaning of Life According to Monty Python
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