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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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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. The results showed that (among those surveyed) approximately 90% of enterprise analytics applications are being built on tabular data.

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Build event-driven data pipelines using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes and Amazon EMR on EKS

AWS Big Data

An event-driven architecture is a software design pattern in which decoupled applications can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events via an event broker. By containerizing your data processing tasks, you can simply deploy them into Amazon EKS as Kubernetes jobs and use Kubernetes to manage underlying computing compute resources.

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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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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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Do I Need a Data Catalog?

erwin

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog.

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From Chaos to Control with Data Intelligence

erwin

As the amount of data grows exponentially, organizations turn to data intelligence to reach deeper conclusions about driving revenue, achieving regulatory compliance and accomplishing other strategic objectives. It’s no secret that data has grown in volume, variety and velocity, with 2.5

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