Data functions and accountability
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We often talk about the value the data function creates.
Daily data contracts tips
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2024
It’s demotivating to work with poor data
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You try your best to work around the poor quality data you’re given.
Data contracts-driven tooling, and a webinar with STRM
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Next Thursday I’ll be discussing data contracts and how they pave the way for effective enforcement on a webinar hosted by STRM.
Count the joins
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I enjoyed this post from Nicole Radziwill, PhD on LinkedIn:
Software engineering and dependencies
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If you’re a software engineer, and an upstream dependency is unreliable, then you would speak to the team who owns that dependency.
Data contracts must be owned by the data producer
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The data contract must be owned by the data producer.
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.
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
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.