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It has been a while since I noticed this question and started to think about the severity of it. I recalled about the past experiences on how I have dealt with data and on the reasons, and I realized that it was seldom brought onto the table and open for discussions. While, we all know that production data is critical, but how to keep it neat and tidy is a topic worth discussing. What I will discuss now are based on experiences from previous and current jobs, the mistakes I have made and the growing learning mindset that I have gained throughout years. They may not completely fit your case, and I welcome any comments.
I want to emphasize again the concept of data although everyone knows what is “data” but it may not be the case that everyone can explain it. Based on Wikipedia, Data are characteristics or information, usually numerical, that are collected through observation. In a more technical sense, data is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables about one or more persons or objects, while a datum (singular of data) is a single value of a single variable.
Pretty clear, right?
So my first question is, what if there is information collected while there is a development process is on the way, there is testing in progress…
