DatatriggerscustomermessagingScriptscompensatefor systemgapsWe haveAMI… butdon’t useit yetInteroperabilityCustomerportal inuseInheritedlegacysystemsRFPchangedafter lessonslearnedGIS linked tometers/accountsWe’reworkingon thatDemandforecastingmentionedSpreadsheetis the systemof recordItdependsStaffingenuitysaved thedayDifferentstaff gavedifferentanswersDashboardspull frommultiplesystemsRepeatableworkflowsVendorlimitsdiscoveredlateLearnedthis thehard waySiloedsystemsThis isn’tperfect —but itworksDocumentationmade adifferenceAPIlimitationsDefensibledataIncrementalprogressbeats perfectsystemsWe didn’tknowwhere thatdata livedWe paidto accessour owndataSinglesourceof truthTargetedconservationCWOLreportingdonemanuallyAIDatasupportswaterbudgetsHad towritecustomqueriesDatadidn’talignhistoricallyReal-timedataDatagaps inhistoryAMI + CISfinallyintegratedManualprocessDatacleaningtookforeverSomeonelaughs attheir ownsystemDatatriggerscustomermessagingScriptscompensatefor systemgapsWe haveAMI… butdon’t useit yetInteroperabilityCustomerportal inuseInheritedlegacysystemsRFPchangedafter lessonslearnedGIS linked tometers/accountsWe’reworkingon thatDemandforecastingmentionedSpreadsheetis the systemof recordItdependsStaffingenuitysaved thedayDifferentstaff gavedifferentanswersDashboardspull frommultiplesystemsRepeatableworkflowsVendorlimitsdiscoveredlateLearnedthis thehard waySiloedsystemsThis isn’tperfect —but itworksDocumentationmade adifferenceAPIlimitationsDefensibledataIncrementalprogressbeats perfectsystemsWe didn’tknowwhere thatdata livedWe paidto accessour owndataSinglesourceof truthTargetedconservationCWOLreportingdonemanuallyAIDatasupportswaterbudgetsHad towritecustomqueriesDatadidn’talignhistoricallyReal-timedataDatagaps inhistoryAMI + CISfinallyintegratedManualprocessDatacleaningtookforeverSomeonelaughs attheir ownsystem

Great Data Dig - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. Data triggers customer messaging
  2. Scripts compensate for system gaps
  3. We have AMI… but don’t use it yet
  4. Interoperability
  5. Customer portal in use
  6. Inherited legacy systems
  7. RFP changed after lessons learned
  8. GIS linked to meters/accounts
  9. We’re working on that
  10. Demand forecasting mentioned
  11. Spreadsheet is the system of record
  12. It depends
  13. Staff ingenuity saved the day
  14. Different staff gave different answers
  15. Dashboards pull from multiple systems
  16. Repeatable workflows
  17. Vendor limits discovered late
  18. Learned this the hard way
  19. Siloed systems
  20. This isn’t perfect — but it works
  21. Documentation made a difference
  22. API limitations
  23. Defensible data
  24. Incremental progress beats perfect systems
  25. We didn’t know where that data lived
  26. We paid to access our own data
  27. Single source of truth
  28. Targeted conservation
  29. CWOL reporting done manually
  30. AI
  31. Data supports water budgets
  32. Had to write custom queries
  33. Data didn’t align historically
  34. Real-time data
  35. Data gaps in history
  36. AMI + CIS finally integrated
  37. Manual process
  38. Data cleaning took forever
  39. Someone laughs at their own system