2024
There are 2 parts to implementing data contracts.
A data contracts implementation doesn’t have to be complicated.
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.
It’s all very well saying, as I did yesterday, that data producers need to do more to provide us better quality data the data we need to solve our problems.
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.
Are the consumers of your data platform active?
I wrote a few weeks ago about the difference between active vs passive data publishing, and how the active publishing of data leads to better outcomes for your organisation.
Think of the processes you have in place.