Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Data Catalog/Documentation

One of the key aspects of Data Governance is the ability to have very good data documentation. Here we are discussing about the nature of data being collected. It is very important to have this information documented as this can help determining how the data can be used in various applications, also in building Machine Learning Models. I am including here a very good blog post written by Prukalpa Shankar (Co Founder of Atlan) . In this article the 5W1H framework is discussed extensively: What is the 5W1H, 

  1. WHAT
  2. WHO
  3. WHY
  4. WHEN
  5. WHERE
  6. HOW

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-documentation-woes-heres-a-framework-6aba8f20626c

Excellent insights are provided in the above post, please read and Keep Learning.