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How to Feed a Data Professional

Columbus, Ohio. 4:00 PM. Every. Single. Day. Snaaaaaacktime! Mom, Dad, its snacktime! Nack! Nack! It's 4 'o clock!! That's snaaacktime!! Nack! Then, three voices in unison: "WHAT IS FOR SNACK!!!" To my children, snacktime is an experience. Mealtime is a chore. Snacktime is full of possibilities. Mealtime is a mundane reality.

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Moldy data and dashboards

I started a presentation to our leadership team with a picture of moldy food to describe how the situation in data felt at the time. Everyone's first expression was: "eww" followed by "ah yes, that's exactly how it feels!".

towardsdatascience.com

3 Steps for a Successful Data Migration

Migrations are one of the most common initiatives that data teams own. But as everyone knows, they are complex beasts. They always take longer than they need to, many different teams are involved, and they're super visible - not just to users, but execs, too. Everyone is anxious when a migration is underway.

towardsdatascience.com

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-next-billion-programmers?utm_source=url

If you ask data folks what they think of Excel, there are two acceptable answers. The first is rank contempt. It's a bloated bundle of bad practices and antipatterns, the disease that won't go away, the interminable termites in the foundation, the crumbling hooks on which our entire society hangs.

benn.substack.com

The New Face of Data Governance - Castor Blog

‍ This article has been co-written with Data governance doesn't need to be a hassle. It just needs to meet data teams where they are: in distributed organizations. Here's why our longstanding approach to data governance isn't a fit for the modern data stack and what some of the best data teams are already doing about it.

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The New Face of Data Governance - Castor Blog

Must read data articles - March

How to Feed a Data Professional

Moldy data and dashboards

3 Steps for a Successful Data Migration

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-next-billion-programmers?utm_source=url

The New Face of Data Governance - Castor Blog