"Data matures like wine, applications like fish"

[tslawecki]

Almost totally off topic, ran across while here so am sharing ...

In my last post touching on my case for Data Engineers, my friend Greg Rahn provided a humorous quote about data from Andy Todd:

“Data matures like wine, applications like fish”

. . .

In this post, though, I’d like to address some of the humor behind the quote — the implication that data gets better as it ages, while applications get worse (and start to smell like stinky fish).

-- From http://www.oraclemusings.com/?p=250

Also see https://www.toolbox.com/blogs/dukeganote/data-matures-like-wine-applications-like-fish-030118

[kkoch]

I particularly like this statement: "There’s a balance to be struck in keeping data fresh and usable — it doesn’t just get better with age, but rather needs to be continually assessed against use cases in order to keep it useful."

I'm sure the relevance of which could be discussed in our analytics discussions.

[kkoch]

Closing. :)