The contract-based data platform at MatHem
Robert Sahlin wrote a nice post on the data platform at MatHem, a Swedish retailer.
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Robert Sahlin wrote a nice post on the data platform at MatHem, a Swedish retailer.
The further away from the source the data is, the lower the quality will be.
You can’t do self-serve just by providing datasets that you understand, but your users don’t.
On the panel with STRM yesterday Avi asked the question:
What do you think about having data contract with business context?
You can’t use data contracts - or anything - to try to gain control over something owned by someone else.
The Digital Leadership Report 2023 from Nash Squared contained these interesting data points:
Almost two-thirds (64%) of the digital leaders we surveyed think that big data and analytics will be in the top 2 technologies to deliver a competitive advantage in the next year.
Over on Medium I’ve published a post about a contract-based data platform, which is an updated version of my post to this newsletter back in December.
I came across this Steve Jobs quote recently:
It’s not the tools that you have faith in — tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not.
I wrote earlier this month that data contracts shouldn’t focus on enforcement.
By which I meant, the outcome you’re optimising for isn’t enforcing rules on someones data, but instead using data contracts to facilitate a better quality dataset that allows others to build on it with confidence.
What do you want from your data?
Do you want it to be fast changing?