A Data Platform is not just for analytics
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Data is at the heart of every meaningful service, and it’s the effective use of that data which builds a product, and a business.
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2024
The 1:10:100 rule of data quality
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟭-𝟭𝟬-𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 # One of my favourite talks at Big Data LDN was by Hannah Davies on The Building Blocks of Data Culture During Transformation.
The quality of your data isn't good or bad
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The quality of your data isn’t simply “good” or “bad”.
How I applied data mesh to my organisation
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My post the other day on understanding the concepts, and applying them at your organisation reminded me of how I first encountered data mesh, and how I started applying some of the concepts to my organisation.
Even if you had perfect data, you should still be building defensive data pipelines
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I talk a lot about data quality and how it could be improved, because I strongly believe that with a little bit more discipline we can do a lot better.
Understanding the concepts, and applying them at your organisation
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There’s a lot of great writing out there about interesting ideas like data contracts, data mesh, and much more.
If data is part of engineering, do we need data contracts?
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David Jayatillake published an interesting post recently titled “We don’t need data contracts”.
Implement your tools where your users expect them to be
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If you want your users to use the tools you are building or onboarding, it’s important to implement them exactly where they expect them to be.
Bringing producers and consumers together with data contracts
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The definition and evolution of the data contract should be a collaboration between the data producers and the data consumers.
A multi-million dollar data quality issue
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Someone reached out to me and asked me to present on data contracts to their organisation after they had a data quality issue that directly resulted in multi-million dollars of lost revenue.