Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

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Embedding Data Governance

In this chapter, we’re going to look at the rather broad area of data governance. We’ll explore what we mean by data governance, and why it’s so important.

As we’ll see, effective governance of data is critical to an organization, but rarely achieved. With data contracts, we can embed our data governance controls alongside the data. We’ll show you how to do this and how powerful it can be, as it unlocks an array of potential automation and tooling that makes it easy to manage our data.

Finally, we’ll assign responsibility for data governance. As we learned in the previous chapter, it’s by clearly defining roles and responsibilities that we enable groups of people to work together closely and do so effectively with ...