Topic — 4 essays
Data Governance
Ownership, data contracts, lineage, quality, and the semantic layer — the agreements and accountability that decide whether an organization can trust its own numbers.
Field Notes
What Is Data Lineage, and What Is It Actually For?
Data lineage is the record of where data comes from, how it's transformed, and where it goes. Here's what it's genuinely for — impact analysis, root cause, audit — a...
02Field Notes
What Is a Data Catalog, and Do You Need One?
A data catalog is a searchable inventory of an organization's data — what exists, where it lives, what it means, and who owns it. Here's what it's for, what it isn't...
03Essay
Most Data Quality Problems Are Org-Chart Problems
When data is wrong, teams buy a data-quality tool. But the durable causes are organizational — unclear ownership, misaligned incentives, no accountability — and no t...
04Essay
Data Contracts Are a Cultural Problem
A schema check is the easy 10% of a data contract. The other 90% is an organizational agreement that no YAML file can enforce for you.