The Informed Company

Acknowledgments and Contributions

This book has been a large effort by a number of people and continues to evolve with community involvement. We appreciate everyone's help in making this book a useful guide for people who are building their data stacks.

Thank‐yous

I want to give a special thanks to Matt David, the head of the Data School for working on the start of this for so many hours with me. He has project managed, refined ideas, and written the majority of this book and continually recruits community involvement. His passion for educating the masses on data is truly inspirational, and he is a joy to work with.

I also want to thank Tim Miller and Tracy Chow, who contributed to many chapters here and worked many stressful hours on content with me. Thank you, Tim and Tracy, for your constant drive and passion for both learning and educating.

Also I'd like to thank the rest of the Chartio Data Advisor team, who each contributed a chapter and who daily take the learnings in this book directly to our customers.

Thank you, Liz Wikstrom, for your always excellent design and illustrations that honor this book and site. Thank you, Eleanor Preston, for helping me work through this framework on so many customer visits—and persistently waiting for us to get it published!

Thank you, Kostas Paradalis of Blendo, for your input on the chapter on ETL vs ELT. Thank you Tristan for providing feedback on writing the foreword.

And lastly, a big thank‐you to our editors, Emilie Schario, Mila ...