Modern Data Architectures with Python

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Data Governance

Data governance is one of the most complex topics in the data field. Data governance is the amalgamation of people, processes, and technology. It lays down the foundation for the creation, modification, usage, and decimation of data, and who owns what data and in what capacity. My approach will be to cover some fundamental ideas and go through how to apply some of them. Why is data governance important? When joining a project, I have often found that there are significant data governance issues. This can range from data quality to security or cataloging. Without data governance, you can see a wide variety of issues in your data. In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

• Databricks Unity Catalog
• Data ...