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Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

You're reading from   Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts A comprehensive guide to building reliable, trusted, and effective data platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635009
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Jones Andrew Jones
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Why Data Contracts?
2. Chapter 1: A Brief History of Data Platforms FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introducing Data Contracts 4. Part 2: Driving Data Culture Change with Data Contracts
5. Chapter 3: How to Get Adoption in Your Organization 6. Chapter 4: Bringing Data Consumers and Generators Closer Together 7. Chapter 5: Embedding Data Governance 8. Part 3: Designing and Implementing a Data Architecture Based on Data Contracts
9. Chapter 6: What Makes Up a Data Contract 10. Chapter 7: A Contract-Driven Data Architecture 11. Chapter 8: A Sample Implementation 12. Chapter 9: Implementing Data Contracts in Your Organization 13. Chapter 10: Data Contracts in Practice 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Discovering data contracts

As the amount of data contracts increase and we successfully shift ownership of those left to the data generators, the ownership of data increases. That will make it more difficult for data consumers to know where the data is, how to access it, and who owns it.

There are two related tools that can help us with this problem: a data catalog, and data lineage. In this section, we’ll introduce each of these tools in turn and explain why they are important when implementing data contracts in your organization.

We’ll cover the following topics in this section:

  • What is a data catalog?
  • Why are data catalogs important for discovering data contracts?
  • What is data lineage?
  • Why is data lineage important for data contracts?

What is a data catalog?

Before discussing how data catalogs help us discover data products built with data contracts, let’s first explain what a data catalog is.

A data catalog is an inventory...

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