Organic Data and Digital Borders

“Data is the new [whatever]” is rarely a useful rubric, but we talk, and think, about data like food. Do you know where yours comes from?

The longer you spend in data-oriented businesses, the more you notice a funny thing about the language used to describe data sets and their uses. While, early on, the language sounds a lot like what you’d use to describe currency (“valuable,” “fungible,” “velocity,”), eventually it all starts to sound like you’re talking about food (“organic,”…