Twenty years of blaming our customers
We were wrong that culture and data literacy were holding back data adoption in the enterprise. Are we about to make the same mistake again, this time with AI?
Data Creation
A blog on all things data products, data applications, and all things data - from me - Yali - cofounder at Snowplow - open source tech for creating data
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A semantic layer is not a context layer
They are both invaluable to agents, but they are distinct
Agents must not run on data exhaust
LLMs and agents have dramatically expanded the scope of what we now call “data” — and, in doing so, have done something stranger to the data value chain than most people have noticed: they have bent it into a loop.
Why companies build data applications
and how data products support data application development
From Data Assets to Data Products: How to Unlock Self-Service Analytics at Scale
On the importance of treating data as a product
What is, and what isn’t, a data contract
What are the core components of a data contract and why do they matter?
How strictly should we govern different data sets?
Whilst most of us could do with more data governance, it’s not true that we should always be governing data more tightly
Why Data Contracts are Obviously a Good Idea
And why there is so much resistance to this idea from the community around the Modern Data Stack
Organizations need to deliberately create data
Why we need to stop thinking of data as oil
My name is Yali and I'm a data guy
I hope to share my thoughts on the rapidly evolving data space here