How is data seen in your organisation?
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In a response to my LinkedIn post on how every data transform is technical debt, Tim Hiebenthal commented:
Data quality
2024
Data quality can only be improved at the source
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Data quality can only be improved at the source.
Trust starts at the source
As I wrote yesterday, many data professionals don’t trust the data they are building on.
Do you trust your data?
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At most of my recent talks I’ve asked the audience - who are made up of data professionals - a simple question: Do you trust your data?
2023
You don't need perfect data
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While yesterday I wrote about prioritising data quality projects, I think it’s important to note that while for many of us the quality does need to be improved, we don’t need to be aiming for perfect.
Prioritising data quality projects
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It’s likely going to be difficult to get a project prioritised if the goal is defined only as “improving data quality”.
Your data should be as dependable your software
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If you’re building key product features on top of your data, shouldn’t it be as dependable as your software-backed features?
Data incidents
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No matter what we do, when working at sufficient scale and/or sufficient speed it’s inevitable that things will go wrong.
Being reactive with data quality
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Most of the time we’re reacting to data quality issues.
How important is data to your organisation?
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If you’re working in one of the data teams then it’s useful to consider how important data is to your organisation.
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