Daily data contracts tips

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?