Identifying data consumers and understanding their requirements
A typical organization is likely to have multiple different categories, or types, of data consumers. We discussed some of these roles in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Data Engineering, but let's review these again:
- Business users: A business user generally wants to access data via interactive dashboards and other visualization types. For example, a sales manager may want to see a chart showing last week's sales by sales rep, geographic area, or top product categories.
- Business applications: In some use cases, the data pipeline that the data engineer builds will be used to power other business applications. For example, Spotify, the streaming music application, provides users with an in-app summary of their listening habits at the end of each year (top songs, top genres, total hours of music streamed, and so on). Read the following Spotify blog post to learn more about how the Spotify data team enabled...
