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Data Quality When You Don’t Understand the Data: Data Quality Coffee With Uncle Chip #3
You can’t test for what you don’t understand. And so, we don’t. We skip it. We assume. Or worse, we wait until something breaks. What is the solution? Uncle Chip tells!

Webinar: A New, More Effective Approach To Data Quality Assessments
We introduce a new, more effective approach to data quality assessments, enabled by DataKitchen’s free open-source software
DataKitchen’s 2020 Honors & Awards
While 2020 has been a collectively difficult year, we want to take a moment to thank all of our employees for the hard work they put into continually developing our DataKitchen DataOps Platform for our customers. We also want to thank all of the data industry groups...
DataKitchen’s Best of 2020 DataOps Resources
We understand that many folks would like to say goodbye and good riddance to 2020. But before we shut the door on such a turbulent, transformative year, we at DataKitchen would like to share the creme de la creme of our DataOps content in hopes that it can help you as...
Improve Business Agility by Hiring a DataOps Engineer
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. - Leon C. Megginson on Charles Darwin “Origin of Species” Adapt or face decline. The agile alliance defines “business agility”...
Infographic – 6 Dimensions of DataOps Maturity
Curious about what DataOps capabilities your organization already has or how you stack up? DataKitchen published a white paper Launch Your DataOps Journey with the DataOps Maturity Model (which you can download here) to guide you on benchmarking your org's DataOps...
Infographic – 7 Steps to Implement DataOps
So you've learned about DataOps and want to get begin implementing it? Look no further than DataKitchen's white paper The Seven Steps to Implement DataOps (which you can download here)! We've taken the seven steps to implement DataOps and included them in the...
Forrester: DataOps for the Intelligent Edge of Business – Further Reading Recommendations
In Forrester’s recent report, DataOps for the Intelligent Edge of Business, Michele Goetz, et al., describe how data teams are facing challenges “about data to support the return on investment and experience.” In fact, “no amount of investment in new big data systems,...
Infographic – 6 Steps to An Enterprise DataOps Transformation
Many adages could be applied to implementing a successful, sustainable DataOps program at your organization, such as 'Rome wasn't built in a day.' or, "Don't boil the ocean." To help you approach introducing DataOps into your organization, we at DataKitchen broke down...
Finding an Executive Sponsor for Your DataOps Initiative
DataOps revolutionizes how data-analytics work gets done. Like many other “big ideas,” it sometimes faces resistance from within the organization. For most organizations, data is a means to an end. The organization’s primary focus is on its mission, whether that is a...
Six Top DataOps Trends for 2021
Since the term was coined, DataOps has expanded the way that people think about data analytics teams and their potential. 2020 was a huge year in DataOps industry acceptance. Media mentions of DataOps are on track to increase 52% over the prior year. To date in 2020,...
6 Highly Recommendable Gift Ideas for Your Data Nerd
So you’ve got a special data nerd in your life - congrats! They’re great to keep around for mental math, household finances, and lots of Star Trek jokes. We’re kidding - the data nerd is not a monolith. They come in all shapes, sizes, and nerd varieties. We’ve got...
What Is DataOps? Most Commonly Asked Questions
As DataOps continues to gain exposure, people are encountering the term for the first time. Below is our list of the most common questions that we hear about DataOps. What is DataOps? DataOps is a collection of technical practices, workflows, cultural norms, and...
Why DevOps Tools Fail at DataOps
Implementing DataOps requires a combination of new methods and automation that augment an enterprise’s existing toolchain. The fastest and most effective way to realize the benefits of DataOps is to adopt an off-the-shelf DataOps Platform. Some organizations try to...