In this inaugural episode of "This PhD Thinks", Eric Sandosham gives a unique take on data. 

Data is more than maths or numbers. 

In fact, data is a representation of symbols of information. 

There are precise and imprecise aspects of data. Think about describing an apple - in maths, an apple is an apple. But in English, you could describe it as "red" or "green" and this imprecise way of representing data provides a way of information creation. 

One way how we can adopt a "data mindset" is to learn how to interpret the precise and imprecise aspects of data. Additionally, learning how to catalogue, as well as see the linkages between the different sets of data, in other words, learning how to apply knowledge graphs is an important skill in today's work.