Four Problems with Data Today

The behavior of many business people today reminds one of a breadline. These employees are the data‐poor, waiting around at the end of the day on the data breadline. Data breadlines cause many problems present in most teams and businesses today. Employees must wait quite a while to receive the data they need to decide how to move forward, slowing the progress of the company. Only a few select data engineers understand how the labyrinths of data are organized. Sometimes, even expert data analysts lose their bearings, which results in slow response times and inaccurate responses to queries. Duplicated, isolated rogue datasets create fragment data in silos. Data fragmentation has an insidious consequence. It incites data brawls, where people shout, yell, and labor over figures that just do not seem to align and that point to diametrically different conclusions.