Company
Date Published
Author
Datafold Team
Word count
1482
Language
English
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None

Summary

The third Data Quality Meetup, held on March 11th, 2021, gathered over 160 participants and featured nine expert speakers who shared insights into managing and improving data quality and governance. Key discussions included Thumbtack's approach to automating data quality checks using Datafold, the importance of aligning data producers and consumers to treat data as a product, managing modeling debt through metadata at Dutchie, and the seven habits of highly effective business intelligence engineers. The event also highlighted the pros and cons of ETL versus ELT data pipelines and featured a panel discussion with leaders from companies like Clari, Shopify, and Carta, who addressed challenges such as hiring, scalability, and meeting complex customer demands. Participants were encouraged to explore recordings of past meetups and RSVP for future sessions to continue learning about data quality practices.