An idea becomes an idea when shared with someone else
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We’re very lucky these days that it’s so easy to connect with people around the world to collaborate and share ideas.
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2024
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
Data engineering provides the foundations for FinOps
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Following on from yesterdays post about measuring for reporting and measuring for action, one data-driven initiative I’m working on is our FinOps program.
Measure for reporting, then measure for action
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Recently I’m finding it useful to split some of the data-driven initiatives I’m working on into two parts: measure for reporting, and measure for action.
How Whatnot are using data contracts
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A few months back Whatnot published a great post on how they are using data contracts.
Building defensively
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I talk a lot about data quality, and how it can be improved.
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.
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 can only be improved at the source
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Data quality can only be improved at the source.
Saying no
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In response to my post on Medium on how every data transform is technical debt, Peter Flock commented: