2024
We’re very lucky these days that it’s so easy to connect with people around the world to collaborate and share ideas.
If you want to improve the quality of the data
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.
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.
A few months back Whatnot published a great post on how they are using data contracts.
I talk a lot about data quality, and how it can be improved.
Staging layers, medallion architectures, data testing, assigning data stewards, gatekeeping application changes until reviewed by a data team.
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.
In response to my post on Medium on how every data transform is technical debt, Peter Flock commented: