Data incidents are opportunities
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Data
2025
2024
Assumptions built on assumptions
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Your customers assume the data application they are paying for is always correct and always up to date.
What does it mean to take responsibility?
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What does it mean when we say data producers must take responsibility for their data?
The 98/2 rule
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The 98/2 rule as described in the Farnam Street newsletter back in July has really stuck with me:
Conway's law and data
Conway’s law asserts that the designs of systems are influenced by an organisation’s communication structure, suggesting that how teams are organised and communicate will reflect in the final product.
Data teams start with accessibility
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A new data team, perhaps being created in a business that is evolving from a startup to a scaleup, often focus on accessibility.
Friction is a data teams biggest challenge
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Jesse Anderson ran a survey which had some interesting results.
Writing code is the easy part
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Writing code.
The limits of centralisation
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There’s a limit to what you can do with a fully centralised data team.
No owner, no responsibility
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How many times do you find something that is not working as it should be, and after digging around you find it has no clear owner?
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