Don't complain about something; change it
Rather than wait for high-value projects to come in through your ticket system.
Data quality
2024
Why we shift left
If you’re looking at implementing data contracts or moving towards a data mesh you will hear a lot about shifting left.
AI wont solve your data quality issues
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AI can do many things.
Removing the tight coupling caused by change data capture
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.
57% of data practitioners highlight data quality as one of their chief obstacles
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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.
Data producers set the expectations
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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.
It's about data applicability, not quality
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I wrote yesterday how data quality shouldn’t be the focus.
Don't focus on data quality
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Data quality shouldn’t be the focus.
Data must be trusted to be useful
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What can you do with data you don’t trust?
Treat the cause of your data quality problems
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We spend a lot of our time fixing the symptoms of poor quality data.
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