Niche focus areas – best practices overview

So, you will want to create a few mental bookmarks in your plan for building a future-proof data solution. The following niche data topic elaborations will provide you with new thoughts to consider as you make your design decisions.

Data profiling involves wrangling data and recording observations as metadata annotations that are associated with the data being profiled. An important attribute of that data is its context, which is defined by its semantics. Data context also has to be set in data calendars, the derived trends observed and the data’s implied source definition. Also, expectations (data contracts) add color to the data, as do the service level agreements (SLAs). There are other contexts, but these are just a few worth mentioning. The range of acceptable values that can be visualized as swimlanes will constrain what are acceptable data values for a given data context. These swimlane demarcations exist above and...