Making Data Useful
Data: A Hoarder’s Storage Locker, Not a Magical Museum
Why data isn’t as useful as we think
3 min readAug 27, 2023
There’s a common misconception that data is the next best thing to a holy relic of science — objective, mathematical, clean, correct, and above all, always useful.
A more accurate analogy for data would be a hoarder’s storage locker.
If you’re like most people, you envision data as a magical museum, meticulously organized and…
