Data is not the new oil
About the reality of working with data
Published in
5 min readFeb 10, 2019
If you work in data science or a related field, you probably have heard this quote before:
“Data is the new oil.”
The quote goes back to 2006, and is credited to Mathematician Clive Humby, but has recently picked up more steam after the Economist published a 2017 report titled “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”.
