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DataKitchen’s Data Quality TestGen Found 18 Potential Data Quality Issues In A Few Minutes!
Imagine a free tool that you can point at any dataset and find actionable data quality issues immediately! I took DataKitchen’s Data Quality TestGen for a test drive on ~600k rows of Boston City data and found 18 data quality hygiene issues in a few minutes.
Navigating the Storm: How Data Engineering Teams Can Overcome a Data Quality Crisis
A data quality crisis in data engineering is more than a mere technical hiccup; it often signals deeper systemic issues within the team and organizational processes. Let’s delve into the root causes, symptoms, and strategies for rapid intervention and long-term improvement.
Believe It Or Not, Your Tools are DataOps Compatible
Almost every data analytic tool can be used in DataOps, but some don’t enable the full breadth of DataOps benefits. DataOps views data-analytics pipelines like a manufacturing process that can be represented by directed acyclic graphs. Each node in the graph...
What is a DataOps Kitchen?
In a previous blog, we talked about aligning technical environments to facilitate the migration of analytics from development to production. In this post, we will introduce the concept of “Kitchens” and illustrate how they simplify the deployment of data analytics. In...
Run Analytics Seamlessly Across Multi-Cloud Environments with DataOps
Data analytics is performed using a seemingly infinite array of tools. In larger enterprises, different groups can choose different cloud platforms. Multi-cloud or multi-data-center integration can be one of the greatest challenges to an analytics organization....
Environments Power DataOps Innovation
Production engineers and analytics developers sometimes row the enterprise boat in different directions. Perhaps it is their roles and objectives which keep them at odds. It’s the production engineer’s duties to keep data operations up and running. Innovation is good,...
Gartner: DataOps Enables Remote Work
Although work restrictions are being lifted around the country, the office work environment will probably never be the same. Many companies are allowing employees to work remotely through the end of the year, until they are comfortable returning, or even forever...
A Tool-Agnostic Approach to DataOps Using the DataKitchen Platform
DataOps improves your ability to orchestrate your data pipelines, automate testing and monitoring, and speed new feature deployment. DataOps recognizes that, in any data project, many different tools play an important role as independent components of the data...
Predicting the Failure of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing will fail before it succeeds. That’s not a criticism of quantum computing. It’s more a commentary on the difficulty of deploying solutions based on cutting-edge innovation. In 2020, the human species has extensive experience with new technologies. I...
For Data Team Success, What You Do is Less Important Than How You Do It
In today’s on-demand economy, the ability to derive business value from data is the secret sauce that will separate the winners from the losers. Data-driven decision making is now more critical than ever. Analytics could mean the difference between finding the right...
4 Easy Ways to Start DataOps Today
The primary source of information about DataOps is from vendors (like DataKitchen) who sell enterprise software into the fast-growing DataOps market. There are over 70 vendors that would be happy to assist in your DataOps initiative. Here’s something you likely won’t...
Why Are There So Many *Ops Terms?
A Guide to Ops Terms and Whether We Need Them It is challenging to coordinate a group of people working toward a shared goal. Work involving large teams and complex processes is even more complicated. Technology-driven companies face these challenges with the added...
Add DataOps Tests to Deploy with Confidence
DataOps is the art and science of automating the end-to-end life cycle of data-analytics to improve agility, productivity and reduce errors to virtually zero. The foundation of DataOps is orchestrating three pipelines: data operations, analytics development/deployment...
Writing DataOps Tests with the DataKitchen Platform
Tests identify data and code errors in the analytics pipelines. Automated orchestration of tests is especially important in heterogeneous technical environments with streaming data. The DataKitchen Platform makes it easy to write tests that check and filter data...