Monster Data Mash-Ups
Remember Tom Cruise swiping through future crimes with his data glove in Minority Report? Steven Spielberg’s vision was inspirational but impractical. In the real world, problems lurk behind the glass. Siloed teams, privacy concerns, and regulation make data look like a bowl of spaghetti.
Pedro Diaz Ochagavia suggests that data can be easily explored with the right approach. He calls the system a “Monster Data Mash-Up.” It has three elements.
1) Declutter. Real-world data spaghetti is hard to untangle. Some try to centralize data. Smarter ones leave it alone and virtualize access to it. Read Virtualize, Don’t Centralize to get started.
2) Curate. Humans don’t complicate data for fun. Data is one of the most valuable commodities a business owns, so it demands careful curation. Read 50,000 Data Chiefs to see how Panera Bread’s culture of data curation helped them transform their business in 14 days during the pandemic.
3) Catalog. Once it’s organized and secure, Tom Cruise needs to find data quickly. Data catalogs are the third element of a Monster Data Mashup. Read Enterprise Data Detox to explore the rise of data catalogs in 2021.
Spielberg left the dirty data details out of Minority Report. But Pedro’s Monster Data Mashup approach can help make it a reality.
Inspired by Minority Report and Building Monster Mash-Ups: How Data as a Service Can Crystallize Analytics by Pedro Diaz Ochagavia
