For the past 3 years I've been honing and refining the practice of interconnecting cloud-based platforms to create powerful and nimble analytics infrastructures—a practice I call daisy-chaining™.  This unique approach to big data strategy recognizes that a data pipeline comprised of world-class cloud platforms—each with their own specialties, dev teams and product roadmaps—yields an analytics infrastructure that's not just reliable and easy to maintain, but constantly improves over time.  As a result, daisy-chaining™ cloud tools makes big data strategies and predictive analytics accessible to even the most budget-conscious teams, including newsrooms.