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AWS Glue for Handling Metadata

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction AWS Glue helps Data Engineers to prepare data for other data consumers through the Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) Process. The managed service offers a simple and cost-effective method of categorizing and managing big data in an enterprise. It provides organizations with […].

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Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?

TDAN

Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. The reason I ask it is because we seem to think about and manage metadata as somehow different than “normal data” such as business operations […]

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Best Practices for Metadata Management

Alation

What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about data. A clothing catalog or dictionary are both examples of metadata repositories. Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Maximize your data dividends with active metadata

IBM Big Data Hub

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. It helps blur data silos, and empowers data and analytics teams to better understand the context and quality of data. This, in turn, builds trust in data and the decision-making to follow. Improve data discovery.

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CRM’s Have a Big Data Technical Debt Problem: Here’s How to Fix It

Smart Data Collective

Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms are very reliant on big data. As these platforms become more widely used, some of the data resources they depend on become more stretched. CRM providers need to find ways to address the technical debt problem they are facing through new big data initiatives.

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