The gap between business and technical people costs companies billions every year. Data practitioners need to learn more about the business if they want to create useful and usable data products. But nobody knows the business better than business leaders. What if they were able to communicate their data needs quickly and accurately without writing code? What if their requests were so context-rich that data engineers improve their understanding of the business while producing data assets?
That’s the idea behind the semantic warehouse proposed by Chad Sanderson, Head of Data at Convoy. Today we decompose this idea and explore what engineers need to build a comprehensive data “system” that scales.If you want to learn about data products I highly recommend subscribing to Chad’s Substack here:https://dataproducts.substack.com/