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The Blueprint for Creating Effective Data ProductsData As a Product — Image courtesy of CastorThe data-as-a-product approach has recently gained widespread attention, as companies seek to maximize data value.I’m convinced the data-as-a-product approach is the revolution we need for creating a better Data Experience, a concept held dear to my heart.A few words on the Data Experience, in case you need to catch up:Data used to be the realm of technical teams. Not anymore. Today, data powers all the operational functions…

And how to go about measuring themImage courtesy of CastorAs data science continues to evolve, so does the importance of effective data engineering. Data engineering teams are responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing the data infrastructure that supports data science initiatives. To ensure that data engineering teams are performing at their best, it’s important to measure their success using relevant metrics.In this article, we’ll discuss the top 10 metrics used to understand the performance of data…

My earliest reading memory In her memoir Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel remembers learning to read at school as a “wearisome uphill trail in the company of Dick and Dora”. My mother had taught me to identify some words before I started school but it was in the classroom, in one of the “readers” that had bored young Hilary senseless, that letters and spaces and full stops left the page as code and reassembled in my head to make a story. Exhilarating.My favourite book growing up Nina Bawden’s Carrie’s War was the book…

Navigating privacy and security when implementing data sharingPrivacy & security: the biggest challenges for data sharing — Image from CastorData sharing can bring many benefits to a company but also comes with its own set of problems. Two major issues that companies often struggle with are Privacy & Security. We will discuss these concepts in this third article of a series dedicated to data sharing.No one really likes to talk about these topics. I’ll be the first to admit that they’re not the most exciting things…

Unlocking the Power of Data Collaboration3 rules for successful data sharing — Image courtesy of CastorIn my previous article, I discussed the topic of data sharing which is already a well-established concept. Data sharing refers to the practice of opening data access to all departments, to empower each department to make data-driven decisions.It is still too common for companies to jump into data-sharing initiatives without a proper plan, believing that simply granting increased access rights to business departments will…

Democratize your data to unlock its full potential5 benefits of data sharing — Image courtesy of castorData sharing is becoming the norm in a lot of organizations, as the pressure to deliver value from data intensifies. In fact, 2023 is the year of ROI in the workplace, and this includes data, too.Whether you call it data mesh, data operationalization, data activation, or data democratization, the idea is the same: It is about giving business teams access to data to help them make data-driven decisions autonomously.The…

Image: Toei AnimationOne Piece’s theatrical movies have generally been fine. Well, they used to be terrible until creator Eiichiro Oda started getting more hands-on with them, but generally they all ended in the same way—Monkey D. Luffy and his crewmates, and maybe a few more popular characters, teaming up to fight some new, ultra-powerful, non-canonical foe. But Red is different in almost every way, and for the better. It fills out Luffy’s backstory by introducing Uta, the daughter of One Piece’s most enigmatic…

Louise Penny, bestselling Canadian novelist and creator of the detective Armand Gamache, was sure as far back as 2005, when she published her award-winning debut Still Life, that she wouldn’t be able to go on writing if her husband Michael Whitehead died. Not only was he the inspiration for her wise, kind, clear-sighted detective, but he was also the reason she found the courage to write in the first place.Whitehead was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, and Penny became his caregiver. After he died in September 2016, she…

When the American poet Louise Glück was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2020, the Swedish Academy commended her “voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. They might have added that she makes the individual female experience universal, joining it to the canon of male mythology in ways even her titles make clear. The Seven Ages, from 2001 – a stunning reflection on human destiny – was preceded by both The Triumph of Achilles (1985) and Ararat (1990), for example, and followed by Averno…

9. Experiment with new menu itemsScreenshot: FoxIn season 11's “Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid,” Gene gets the stomach flu and ends up camped out in the bathroom; most of the episode is Louise, Tina, and Bob’s action movie-inspired storytelling through the door to keep him amused. The episode’s biggest Thanksgiving takeaway, however, is that Bob decides to shake up his traditional menu with some fancy-sounding new dishes: a baked brie and roasted pear appetizer, rosemary bread, sausage and chestnut stuffing... which would sound…