Influencing through platforms
·4 mins
We can influence the behaviour of people and processes through the platforms we build and the design decisions we make.
Data Contracts
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2025
Iceberg, and the elephant in the room
·3 mins
Happy new year everyone!
2024
Metadata management at Notion
·4 mins
A couple of months ago the team at Notion published a great post titled a brief history of Notion’s data catalog.
Creating platforms with data contracts
·5 mins
The initial idea for data contracts was to create an interface through which reliable and well-structured data could be made available to consumers.
Increase collaboration with interfaces
·4 mins
Welcome to my new and improved newsletter!
Make the impact visible
Following on from yesterdays post, perhaps the key point is to make the impact of data issues visible.
Talking to software engineers
Yesterday I talked to software engineers about data quality.
Data contracts at Miro
·2 mins
Miro recently wrote up their adoption of data contracts in Data Products Reliability: The Power of Metadata.
37% of data incidents are caused by schema changes
·1 min
Barr Moses, Co-Founder & CEO at Monte Carlo, posted some interesting data on data incidents on LinkedIn.
Data contracts won't work
·1 min
Some people argue data contracts won’t work in their organisation.
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