2024
Many data platforms start with a change data capture (CDC) service to extract data from an organisations transactional databases — the source of truth for their most valuable data.
dbt Lab’s 2024 State of Analytics Engineering found 57% of data practitioners highlight data quality as one of their chief obstacles in preparing data for analysis.
For a data consumer to know if the data is applicable to their use case, they need to know what to expect from the data.
I wrote yesterday how data quality shouldn’t be the focus.
Data quality shouldn’t be the focus.
What can you do with data you don’t trust?
We spend a lot of our time fixing the symptoms of poor quality data.
The costs of producing data increases as it passes through all the different pipelines and teams needed to refine the data into something useable.
Why would you create and maintain good quality data.
Nash Squared’s Digital Leadership Report from last year recorded that 64% of organisations they interviewed think that big data and analytics are the way to deliver competitive advantage, yet only 1 in 5 are using it to deliver increased revenue.