Data Thoughts

*Knowledge first—* Get to know your problem, your data, your approach, and your goal before you do anything else, and keep those at the forefront of your mind.
*Technology second—* Software is a tool that serves you. It both enables and constrains you. It shouldn’t dictate your approach to the problem except in extenuating circumstances.
*Opinions third—* Opinions, intuition, and wishful thinking are to be used only as guides toward theories that can be proven correct and not as the focus of any project.

Keep asking: What should be done next?

Data-centric instead of data-driven

Listen to customers, Ask questions to uncover facts

efficiency = value / effort * possibility