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Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

By : Andrew Jones
Book Image

Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

By: Andrew Jones

Overview of this book

Despite the passage of time and the evolution of technology and architecture, the challenges we face in building data platforms persist. Our data often remains unreliable, lacks trust, and fails to deliver the promised value. With Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts, you’ll discover the potential of data contracts to transform how you build your data platforms, finally overcoming these enduring problems. You’ll learn how establishing contracts as the interface allows you to explicitly assign responsibility and accountability of the data to those who know it best—the data generators—and give them the autonomy to generate and manage data as required. The book will show you how data contracts ensure that consumers get quality data with clearly defined expectations, enabling them to build on that data with confidence to deliver valuable analytics, performant ML models, and trusted data-driven products. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of how data contracts can revolutionize your organization’s data culture and provide a competitive advantage by unlocking the real value within your data.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1: Why Data Contracts?
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Part 2: Driving Data Culture Change with Data Contracts
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Part 3: Designing and Implementing a Data Architecture Based on Data Contracts

Embedding Data Governance

In this chapter, we’re going to look at the rather broad area of data governance. We’ll explore what we mean by data governance, and why it’s so important.

As we’ll see, effective governance of data is critical to an organization, but rarely achieved. With data contracts, we can embed our data governance controls alongside the data. We’ll show you how to do this and how powerful it can be, as it unlocks an array of potential automation and tooling that makes it easy to manage our data.

Finally, we’ll assign responsibility for data governance. As we learned in the previous chapter, it’s by clearly defining roles and responsibilities that we enable groups of people to work together closely and do so effectively with the knowledge of what is expected of them.

These roles and responsibilities look different in a data contract-backed architecture than in more traditional implementations of data governance...