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Data Lakes For Dummies
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Data Lakes For Dummies

by Alan R. Simon
July 2021
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
9h 51m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 17

Checking Your GPS: The Data Lake Road Map

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Laying out your road map

check Assessing your current state

check Solidifying your data lake vision

check Defining your data lake architecture

check Specifying your kickoff activities

check Sailing past your initial data lake release toward future expansion

How do you get to the data lake? A LAKE.

No, that’s not a riddle, and I’m not just repeating part of the question to stall for time. A LAKE refers to a five-phase data lake methodology consisting of (check out the first letter of each phase listed below):

  • Assessment
  • Lofty vision
  • Architecture
  • Kickoff activities
  • Expansion

If you follow the phased activities laid out in A LAKE, you can help take your company from wherever you stand today with your data and analytics to widespread delivery of high-impact, high-value data-driven insights throughout your organization.

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