The quality of a data product is its data and its code
·4 mins
Monitoring code quality is as important as data quality
Data Quality
2026
What happens when a data contract is breached?
·2 mins
What happens when the data doesn’t match the contract?
2025
The internal cost of data quality issues
·3 mins
How does your team feel when working with poor quality data?
A business case for data quality
·2 mins
Linking data quality to a business outcome to create a business case.
Your data quality problem is an incentives problem
·3 mins
Hey everyone! In today’s newsletter I write about how data quality is really about incentives. There’s links to posts on shifting left and right, and to an interesting interview with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy by Ben Thompson. Finally there’s a particularly silly pun…
Wrapping legacy applications with data contracts
·7 mins
Hi all, hope you had a great week!
Today I’m writing about applying data contracts to legacy applications and using them to monitor data quality and assign ownership of the data to the application owner.
2024
Don't complain about something; change it
·1 min
Rather than wait for high-value projects to come in through your ticket system. Go out and find them.
Why we shift left
·1 min
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
·1 min
AI can do many things. But it wont solve your data quality issues.
If you don’t have the quality of data you need to make a decision, take some action, or improve a business process, AI can’t solve that for you.
Removing the tight coupling caused by change data capture
·1 min
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.
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