The further away from the source the data is, the lower the quality will be
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The further away from the source the data is, the lower the quality will be.
Data quality
2024
Control and ownership
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You can’t use data contracts - or anything - to try to gain control over something owned by someone else.
It's not the tools you have faith in, it's the people
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I came across this Steve Jobs quote recently:
What happens when a data contract is breached?
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I wrote earlier this month that data contracts shouldn’t focus on enforcement.
What do you want from your data?
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What do you want from your data?
It’s demotivating to work with poor data
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You try your best to work around the poor quality data you’re given.
Count the joins
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I enjoyed this post from Nicole Radziwill, PhD on LinkedIn:
Software engineering and dependencies
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If you’re a software engineer, and an upstream dependency is unreliable, then you would speak to the team who owns that dependency.
If you want to improve the quality of the data, you need to speak to the producer of the data
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If you want to improve the quality of the data
Treat the cause of data quality problems, not the symptoms
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Staging layers, medallion architectures, data testing, assigning data stewards, gatekeeping application changes until reviewed by a data team.