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Data Contracts — From Zero To Hero
A pragmatic approach to data contracts
Recently, there has been a lot of noise around data contracts on social media. Some data practitioners shared opinions about pros and cons but mostly about what it is and its definition. While I think data contracts are a wild topic, I wanted to share my experience with pragmatic tips on how to get started. Data contracts are something real and valuable that you can start leveraging today with less effort than you think. But why do we need them in the first place?
🔥What’s the fuzz about data contracts?
Being proactive instead of reactive
If you work in data, chances are high you faced multiple times this problem: data is wrong, and you have no idea why. There seems to be a problem upstream in the data, but none of your internal colleagues knows why so what do we do? Who should we contact?
How did we end up there?
With data not being the first class citizen, data teams mostly start getting analytics on an existing infrastructure that serves other initial goals. They will “plug” their pipelines against an existing operational database, off-load data to a warehouse and handle the rest.
