Budget.

Today, I learned about the value of data, well, actually, the value to manage the data. With a currency sign, it's an eight-figures number.

In certain occasion, people claim the data they have are useless. It is not the data, but it is them who don't know how to use the data.

Data, is invalueable.

'Tis because data is the base of information. Through the interpretation of data, we gain information. From the understanding of the information, we gain knowledge. As they say, knowledge is power.

Unlike everything else, our knowledge will increase if we share. If we share our food, we'll only gain a portion out of it. If we share our money, we'll only get poorer. But if we share our knowledge, we gain more.

Wait...

Come to think about it, if we share our power, we'll lose our authority. This means the saying, 'knowledge is power' in this sense is not correct, because we lose power if we share our power, whereby we gain knowledge if we share our knowledge. So, why are we still using the quote 'knowledge is power'? Who quoted that in the first place anyway?

Let us wonder about that some other day, shall we? Back to the topic.

From the understanding of the information which we got from the interpretation of data, we gain knowledge. From the knowledge we have, we make decisions. Desicions, lead to action.

And for every action, there is an equal reaction. That's Newton Third Law, as we learned in Physics.

Wait, that doesn't sound right in this context. Let us try something else on 'action'.

OK.

Action, leads to consequence. As we learned about the consequences of our action, we gain experience. Understanding the experience, we gain wisdom.

Wisdom, is priceless, because it leads to enlightenment.

But, we cannot have wisdom without experience and knowledge. We cannot have knowledge without information. And we cannot have the information without interpreting the data.

That is why, data is invalueable.


p/s: This is the reason I'm so stressed out when someone asks for some information that I don't have and there is no data for me to interpret. Therefore, *carutan*, *carutan* and more *carutan* to the *undisclosed recipient*.