Data is the new soil.

This one by request from Chris Smith.

“…data is the new soil. Because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium…it feels like visualizations, infographics, data visualizations, they feel like flowers blooming from this medium. But if you look at it directly, it’s just a lot of numbers and disconnected facts. But if you start working with it and playing with it in a certain way, interesting thing “

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization/