Migrating to a new data contract version
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Data evolves over time, and as such a data contract needs to support that.
Data Contracts
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2024
Data contracts enable data products
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While data products are for people, they still require an interface that allows people to access them - usually through a system such as a database, an analytics tool, a notebook, and so on.
A Data Platform is not just for analytics
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Data is at the heart of every meaningful service, and it’s the effective use of that data which builds a product, and a business.
The 1:10:100 rule of data quality
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟭-𝟭𝟬-𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 One of my favourite talks at Big Data LDN was by Hannah Davies on The Building Blocks of Data Culture During Transformation.
How I applied data mesh to my organisation
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My post the other day on understanding the concepts, and applying them at your organisation reminded me of how I first encountered data mesh, and how I started applying some of the concepts to my organisation.
Understanding the concepts, and applying them at your organisation
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There’s a lot of great writing out there about interesting ideas like data contracts, data mesh, and much more.
If data is part of engineering, do we need data contracts?
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David Jayatillake published an interesting post recently titled “We don’t need data contracts”.
Bringing producers and consumers together with data contracts
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The definition and evolution of the data contract should be a collaboration between the data producers and the data consumers.
A multi-million dollar data quality issue
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Someone reached out to me and asked me to present on data contracts to their organisation after they had a data quality issue that directly resulted in multi-million dollars of lost revenue.
Does data contracts require support from the top?
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It can be tempting to view data contracts as a large program that requires support from the top of the organisation to be successful.
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