Before talking to Chad Sanderson, I had never heard of Data Contracts. Now, I'm a proponent of how critical they are for data quality within any platform. Listen in and you may become a proponent too!
Chad is our guest in today's episode. He's:
• An extremely smooth communicator of technical information.
• CEO and Co-Founder of Gable, a platform for data teams that has raised $7m in seed funding.
• Chief Operator of the non-profit Data Quality Camp.
• Author of the forthcoming O'Reilly book “Data Contracts”.
• His informative social-media posts on Data Contracts have enabled him to amass over 80,000 followers on LinkedIn alone.
Today’s episode will appeal most to folks who work with data hands-on or who are involved in management roles that oversee data flows. Init, Chad details:
• What data contracts are.
• The critical concept of "shifting left" in data quality and governance.
• How data debt accumulates and leads to "spaghetti" data architectures.
• Why data quality is fundamentally a change-management problem.
Thanks to Emily Pastewka for suggesting Chad as a guest on the show!
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