WorkMarch 1, 2023

Data Catalogue: Discoverability, Governance, and Self-Service Adoption

Data Governance

Project Notes (full article to be written)

Source: Luxury beauty brand - Data Catalogue & Data Governance (Data catalogue solution, BigQuery, PowerBI) Context:

Implementation of data catalogue for a large luxury company
Tool selection and evaluation of data catalogue solution (Data catalogue solution)
Challenge of establishing common business definitions and alignment between technical and business definitions

Technologies:

Data Catalogue: Data catalogue solution (or Datahub/Alation)
Data Warehouse: BigQuery (500+ tables catalogued)
Metadata Extraction: Automated crawlers
Business Glossary: Custom glossary definitions
Data Lineage: Automated from SQL queries

Implemented Solutions:

Implementation process and team adoption strategy
Improved data discoverability and data quality
Business glossary with canonical definitions for top 50 business terms
Self-service data discovery interface

Results:

500+ tables catalogued with automated metadata
Data discovery time: 2 hours → 5 minutes
50% time saved on "where is X?" questions
Top 50 business terms standardized
Onboarding speed: 2 months → 2 weeks

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