Data Processing

Roles: data, pipeline, transform, input, output, buffer, stream

The mechanical transformation of data through sequential stages — ingestion, validation, transformation, and output. Borrows heavily from fluid dynamics (streams, pipelines) and manufacturing (assembly lines). Useful as both a source and target domain: we process grief, digest information, and filter noise in everyday language.

Applied To This Frame (13)

• fluid-dynamics → Data Flow Is Fluid Flow
• logistics → Databases Are Warehouses
• library-and-archive → Everything Is a File
• governance → File Permissions
• tool-use → Filesystem Mount
• horticulture → Filesystem Root
• human-sexuality → Middle-Out Compression
• broadcasting → Signal to Noise
• fluid-dynamics → Stdin, Stdout, Stderr
• fluid-dynamics → The Pipeline Pattern
• fluid-dynamics → Unix Filter
• fluid-dynamics → Unix Pipe
• fluid-dynamics → Unix Tee