Chapter 14
Figuring Out If You Have a Data Swamp Instead of a Data Lake
IN THIS CHAPTER
Designing your data lake report card
Grading your raw data
Scoring data quality and governance
Checking your data lake speed limits
Deciding if your data lake has the right component architecture
Tabulating your results
Bad news: Your data lake is sinking, fast. Wait … how about this: Your data lake is taking on water?
Really bad metaphors aside, you have a big problem on your hands: Your data lake turned out to be nothing like what you expected it to be. Even worse, the data lake is nothing like the executives at your company envisioned when they approved the initiative and wrote the checks.
Now what?
The silver lining in that vicious thunderstorm shooting lightning bolts all around your data lake (finally, a metaphor that makes sense!) is that you really can turn things around. You start by putting ...
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