APIlimitationsDatasupportswaterbudgetsDemandforecastingmentionedThis isn’tperfect —but itworksAIDatadidn’talignhistoricallyWe didn’tknowwhere thatdata livedItdependsDashboardspull frommultiplesystemsAMI + CISfinallyintegratedInheritedlegacysystemsLearnedthis thehard wayHad towritecustomqueriesIncrementalprogressbeats perfectsystemsRFPchangedafter lessonslearnedRepeatableworkflowsDefensibledataManualprocessWe’reworkingon thatGIS linked tometers/accountsSinglesourceof truthWe paidto accessour owndataTargetedconservationSomeonelaughs attheir ownsystemSiloedsystemsVendorlimitsdiscoveredlateInteroperabilityCWOLreportingdonemanuallyDatacleaningtookforeverDatagaps inhistoryCustomerportal inuseReal-timedataScriptscompensatefor systemgapsWe haveAMI… butdon’t useit yetDatatriggerscustomermessagingDocumentationmade adifferenceDifferentstaff gavedifferentanswersStaffingenuitysaved thedaySpreadsheetis the systemof recordAPIlimitationsDatasupportswaterbudgetsDemandforecastingmentionedThis isn’tperfect —but itworksAIDatadidn’talignhistoricallyWe didn’tknowwhere thatdata livedItdependsDashboardspull frommultiplesystemsAMI + CISfinallyintegratedInheritedlegacysystemsLearnedthis thehard wayHad towritecustomqueriesIncrementalprogressbeats perfectsystemsRFPchangedafter lessonslearnedRepeatableworkflowsDefensibledataManualprocessWe’reworkingon thatGIS linked tometers/accountsSinglesourceof truthWe paidto accessour owndataTargetedconservationSomeonelaughs attheir ownsystemSiloedsystemsVendorlimitsdiscoveredlateInteroperabilityCWOLreportingdonemanuallyDatacleaningtookforeverDatagaps inhistoryCustomerportal inuseReal-timedataScriptscompensatefor systemgapsWe haveAMI… butdon’t useit yetDatatriggerscustomermessagingDocumentationmade adifferenceDifferentstaff gavedifferentanswersStaffingenuitysaved thedaySpreadsheetis the systemof record

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