How organizations can take a mission-driven approach to improving, maintaining, and leveraging their data ecosystems. DISCLAIMER: This is isn’t a piece about big data or data-as-commodity. This is an article about how data exist alongside people, places, and things — and what that means for our communities, organizations, and policies. Data-driven, data-informed, data-enabled, data-centric, data data data. Data. Data are everywhere. We’ve heard.