(Data ∩ Water) Terms. All at sea, exploring the data… | by Pardis Noorzad | Medium

Data toolmakers and the larger data community have long been reclaiming water terms to refer to products, services, actions, and concepts. There is a wealth of discussion about whether data is more like oil or water. Most recently data has been likened to electricity. These surface-level disagreements are water under the bridge, because like the fish in the sea, water terms are aplenty in the data vernacular. To further explore this sentiment, I gather here, a list of fifty-eight terms shared between the two domains. The list is sorted in alphabetical order. Let’s dive in. noun Started and open-sourced at Lyft, Amundsen is a data discovery tool. It provides a powerful search experience by indexing all data resources and performing page-rank style search based on usage metrics. Stemma is a venture backed, fully managed data catalog system built atop Amundsen. noun In stream processing, backpressure is a suite of methods to prevent or manage data loss when the rate at which data arrives

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