Sisense

AUGUST 28, 2020

Uncomfortable truth incoming: Most people in your organization don’t think about the quality of their data from intake to production of insights. However, as a data team member, you know how important data integrity (and a whole host of other aspects of data management) is. What is data integrity?

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 25, 2022

Ensuring that data is available, secure, correct, and fit for purpose is neither simple nor cheap. Companies end up paying outside consultants enormous fees while still having to suffer the effects of poor data quality and lengthy cycle time. . For example, DataOps can be used to automate data integration.

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DataKitchen

MAY 10, 2021

Some will argue that observability is nothing more than testing and monitoring applications using tests, metrics, logs, and other artifacts. That’s a fair point, and it places emphasis on what is most important – what best practices should data teams employ to apply observability to data analytics. Tie tests to alerts.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Companies are no longer wondering if data visualizations improve analyses but what is the best way to tell each data-story. 2020 will be the year of data quality management and data discovery: clean and secure data combined with a simple and powerful presentation. 1) Data Quality Management (DQM).

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the context of Data in Place, validating data quality automatically with Business Domain Tests is imperative for ensuring the trustworthiness of your data assets. Running these automated tests as part of your DataOps and Data Observability strategy allows for early detection of discrepancies or errors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The problem is that, before AI agents can be integrated into a companys infrastructure, that infrastructure must be brought up to modern standards. In addition, because they require access to multiple data sources, there are data integration hurdles and added complexities of ensuring security and compliance.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Extrinsic Control Deficit: Many of these changes stem from tools and processes beyond the immediate control of the data team. Unregulated ETL/ELT Processes: The absence of stringent data quality tests in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) processes further exacerbates the problem.

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Octopai

AUGUST 3, 2022

It’s also a critical trait for the data assets of your dreams. What is data with integrity? Data integrity is the extent to which you can rely on a given set of data for use in decision-making. Where can data integrity fall short? Too much or too little access to data systems.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 19, 2018

have a large body of tools to choose from: IDEs, CI/CD tools, automated testing tools, and so on. are only starting to exist; one big task over the next two years is developing the IDEs for machine learning, plus other tools for data management, pipeline management, data cleaning, data provenance, and data lineage.

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DataKitchen

MAY 10, 2024

The Second of Five Use Cases in Data Observability Data Evaluation: This involves evaluating and cleansing new datasets before being added to production. This process is critical as it ensures data quality from the onset. Examples include regular loading of CRM data and anomaly detection.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 16, 2024

Data Pipeline Observability: Optimizes pipelines by monitoring data quality, detecting issues, tracing data lineage, and identifying anomalies using live and historical metadata. In comparison, other products in the market only cover specific areas, lacking the depth and integration that DataKitchen provides.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In addition to newer innovations, the practice borrows from model risk management, traditional model diagnostics, and software testing. It’s a very simple and powerful idea: simulate data that you find interesting and see what a model predicts for that data. 6] Debugging may focus on a variety of failure modes (i.e.,

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DataKitchen

MAY 10, 2024

The Third of Five Use Cases in Data Observability Data Evaluation: This involves evaluating and cleansing new datasets before being added to production. This process is critical as it ensures data quality from the onset. Examples include regular loading of CRM data and anomaly detection.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 3, 2025

Photo by CDC on Unsplash Many data pipeline failures and quality issues that are detected by data observability tools in production could have been prevented earlier in the pipeline lifecycle with better pre-production testing strategies. Crucial for time-sensitive analytics and reporting processes.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Complex Data TransformationsTest Planning Best Practices Ensuring data accuracy with structured testing and best practices Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash Introduction Data transformations and conversions are crucial for data pipelines, enabling organizations to process, integrate, and refine raw data into meaningful insights.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Matillion data integration and transformation platform enables enterprises to perform advanced analytics and business intelligence using cross-cloud platform-as-a-service offerings such as Snowflake. DataKitchen acts as a process hub that unifies tools and pipelines across teams, tools and data centers.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Introduction Data transformations and data conversions are crucial to ensure that raw data is organized, processed, and ready for useful analysis. However, these two processes are essentially distinct, and their testing needs differ in manyways.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Managing tests of complex data transformations when automated data testing tools lack important features? Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Introduction Data transformations are at the core of modern business intelligence, blending and converting disparate datasets into coherent, reliable outputs.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Deploying a Data Journey Instance unique to each customer’s payload is vital to fill this gap. Such an instance answers the critical question of ‘Dude, Where is my data?’ ’ while maintaining operational efficiency and ensuring data quality—thus preserving customer satisfaction and the team’s credibility.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

However, the foundation of their success rests not just on sophisticated algorithms or computational power but on the quality and integrity of the data they are trained on and interact with. The Imperative of Data Quality Validation Testing Data quality validation testing is not just a best practice; it’s imperative.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Using data fabric also provides advanced analytics for market forecasting, product development, sale and marketing. Moreover, it is important to note that data fabric is not a one-time solution to fix data integration and management issues. Other important advantages of data fabric are as follows.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 5, 2025

In this post, well see the fundamental procedures, tools, and techniques that data engineers, data scientists, and QA/testing teams use to ensure high-quality data as soon as its deployed. First, we look at how unit and integration tests uncover transformation errors at an early stage.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And if it isnt changing, its likely not being used within our organizations, so why would we use stagnant data to facilitate our use of AI? The key is understanding not IF, but HOW, our data fluctuates, and data observability can help us do just that. And lets not forget about the controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. Informatica Axon Informatica Axon is a collection hub and data marketplace for supporting programs.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Introduction Data transformations are important processes in data engineering, enabling organizations to structure, enrich, and integrate data for analytics , reporting, and operational decision-making. Assess which factors apply most to your pipeline (e.g.,

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2022

A data fabric is an architectural approach that enables organizations to simplify data access and data governance across a hybrid multicloud landscape for better 360-degree views of the customer and enhanced MLOps and trustworthy AI. The post What is a data fabric architecture? appeared first on Journey to AI Blog.

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DataKitchen

JUNE 19, 2023

Another way to look at the five pillars is to see them in the context of a typical complex data estate. .” – Take A Bow, Rihanna (I may have heard it wrong) Validating data quality at rest is critica l to the overall success of any Data Journey. The image above shows an example ‘’data at rest’ test result.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It involves establishing policies and processes to ensure information can be integrated, accessed, shared, linked, analyzed and maintained across an organization. Better data quality. It harvests metadata from various data sources and maps any data element from source to target and harmonize data integration across platforms.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

.’ What’s a Data Journey? Data Journeys track and monitor all levels of the data stack, from data to tools to code to tests across all critical dimensions. A Data Journey supplies real-time statuses and alerts on start times, processing durations, test results, and infrastructure events, among other metrics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Art of Service recommends candidates spend a minimum of 18 hours on the course to pass the certification test. It consists of three separate, 90-minute exams: the Information Systems (IS) Core exam, the Data Management Core exam, and the Specialty exam. How to prepare: The fee includes an online training program and PDF textbook.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Data integration If your organization’s idea of data integration is printing out multiple reports and manually cross-referencing them, you might not be ready for a knowledge graph. Data quality Knowledge graphs thrive on clean, well-structured data, and they rely on accurate relationships and meaningful connections.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to using native managed AWS services that BMS didn’t need to worry about upgrading, BMS was looking to offer an ETL service to non-technical business users that could visually compose data transformation workflows and seamlessly run them on the AWS Glue Apache Spark-based serverless data integration engine.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This also includes building an industry standard integrated data repository as a single source of truth, operational reporting through real time metrics, data quality monitoring, 24/7 helpdesk, and revenue forecasting through financial projections and supply availability projections. 2 GB into the landing zone daily.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2024

ChatGPT caused quite a stir after it launched in late 2022, with people clamoring to put the new tech to the test. Can the current state of our data operations deliver the results we seek? Another tough topic that CIOs are having to surface to their colleagues: how problems with enterprise data quality stymie their AI ambitions.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2024

Before starting any production workloads after migration, you need to test your new workflows to ensure no disruption to production systems. Migrating workloads to AWS Glue AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that helps analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources.

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Sisense

JANUARY 14, 2021

VP of Business Intelligence Michael Hartmann describes the problem: “When an upstream data model change was introduced, it took a few days for us to notice that one of our Sisense charts was ‘broken.’ With that in mind, the developers at Billie came up with the idea to automatically test Sisense charts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 8, 2024

Then we have to make sense of the data, massage it and import it in our system. The first is to reconcile the data. Our system has a mandatory data integrity check, so if you try to import the data that doesn’t reconcile, our system isn’t going to let you, so we don’t allow any shortcuts. If so, we’re ready to go.

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