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Chris Love's avatar

I love the hierarchy of needs diagram, especially in splitting out data transformation etc from ETL. This is often missed but is a crucial foundational requirement.

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Dylan Anderson's avatar

Thanks Chris! I completely agree, I think people use ETL as a buzzword that has lost all meaning. ETL is a process/ approach, its not a technology. There is tech that facilitates it, but I find engineers dumb it down because they understand it (even if the rest of us don't). Approaching it from a hierarchy spells out what matters/ what doesn't and I hope I did a good job of that!

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Dylan Anderson's avatar

Love this one, definitely using it for my upcoming article on Data Engineering

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Esa Koskinen's avatar

I just love this. Everybody continue publishing and speaking about data strategy, information architecture etc. We already got the technology and the people.

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Dylan Anderson's avatar

Yup, the technology and the people needs to be underpinned by good thinking and approaches to these things!

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