"Data bounces ... behind your eyeballs"

If no one sees a piece of data, does it exist? Andrew Walkingshaw asks in his post “Data as process.”

Data only exists inasmuch as it supports either communication or decision-making. When it’s not being looked at, whether by a person or a process, it’s as if it had never been at all.

Instead, he writes, data is really about processes.

How do people make d…