When I see organizations using and talking about their data, they love to present the tools they’re using to handle and wrangle it. You’ve probably heard terms like Hadoop, Spark, Shark, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and rarely Excel. (If you haven’t, there’s a good list to look up on Wikipedia.) I won’t argue that taming data doesn’t take good tools, but what I will argue is that the tools you use depend on the scale of your data.