Data Past and Present
From Alchemy to Pharmacy
Product Philosophy
<=7 Year old humor
100

The concept for a relational database was first developed at this technology company in 1950

IBM

100

These are the two main goals of alchemy (answering one is sufficient)

philosopher's stone (longevity)

turn base metals into gold

100

This software development methodology consists of infrequent product updates with large scale changes for each release cycle

Waterfall

100

If you are Russian when you enter the bathroom and Finnish when you come out, you are this when you are in the bathroom

European

200

Edison's magnetic rival had this to say about the future of data transfer: "perfectly applied the whole Earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole … and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared to our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”

Tesla

200

This famous scientist and mathematician wrote "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" and was an avid alchemist 

Isaac Newton

200

The creator of modern product management hailed from this Cincinnati industrial giant

Proctor and Gamble

200
Six was afraid of seven because of this event

Seven Eight Nine

300

The earliest examples of humans storing and analyzing data date back to 18,000 BCE. These brilliant ancestors used these materials to keep tally. 

bones and sticks

300

Derived from the White Willow plant. This common pain reliever was the first "blockbuster drug" (1897)

salicylic acid (Asprin)

300

This word means "continuous improvement" in Japanese and is associated with the foundations of product management developed in the Japanese auto Industry. 

Kaizen

300

Piglet, friend of Christoper Robin and Tigger, always smelled bad because of this.

Because he plays with Pooh

400

In the last two years, this percentage of the worlds cumulative data was produced.

90%

400

The creation of this drug, FDA approved in 1960, marks a significant milestone in the feminist movement

Enovid, Birth control


400

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it ______." -Steve Jobs

Works

400

This is what the banana said to the dog

Nothing, bananas can't talk

500

In 1644, Michael Florent Van Langren, an astronomer of this country's origin, is believed to have provided the first visual representation of statistical data.

Belgium

500

This process describes the encoding from RNA to protein. Recent mRNA vaccines against covid work by leveraging this process to generate viral spike proteins as antigen signals for immune cell targeting. 

Translation

500

These are the 4 pilars of the agile manifesto

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

500

This is brown and sticky

a stick