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The Inevitable Generative Artificial Intelligence Post
Getting computers to do what you want has never been easy I remember as a youngster, eager to create my own version of the dungeon crawling game Rogue. Firing up the BASIC programming interface and meticulously typing out in plain English what I wanted the game to be like – the adventures, the rules, everything.Only…
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What the 🤬 is a Data Contract?
Qualities of a Data Contract Off the back of a couple of in person and online interactions, I have encountered the valid question of: what is a data contract? Or more specifically: what makes up a data contract? Simply put I believe these are the qualities that define a data contract: It is a structured…
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Data Contracts: Consensus as Code
Data Quality – garbage in, garbage out. We all know that, but it’s hard to know what to do about it. Documenting everything is well-intentioned, but it’s often too detailed or too tedious to be effective. So what’s the solution? Code. Using code to spell out the expectations between data producers and data teams can…