Waterways
Moving stuff around is never easy.
It takes 12x as much energy to move things on land (with asphalt or concrete roads) instead of water. Before the 20th century, the best roads were gravel or dirt which required closer to 100x more energy than water.
So for thousands of years, humans built settlements and cities along key water features—Ocean ports, rivers, peninsulas, etc. When you needed to move food, building supplies, livestock, or armies the people who lived along waterways had significant advantages over those who were landlocked.
A data team moves around a lot of data for the business teams.
What can you do to build your data products and analytical solutions along efficient waterways?
The easier data flows around to key places in your company, the greater the advantage you have over competitors.
Have a great weekend, friends.
Sawyer
p.s. I guess we call the data “pipelines” for a reason.
p.p.s. We are two weeks into The Data Daily. How yall doing? Anything you want to see more of/less of?