Going Meta

Metadata

• Author: Dave Connors
• Full Title:: Going Meta
• Category:: 🗞️Articles
• URL:: https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/going-meta
• Finished date:: 2024-04-01

Highlights

how often do we as data practitioners take a moment to zoom out and interrogate our methods? Is the way we’re encoding knowledge consistent? Can we improve our knowledge system in any meaningful way? Do we have any knowledge about the knowledge we’re generating? (View Highlight)

We built dbt_project_evaluator to automatically translate this metadata into the shared language spoken by all data practitioners: SQL baby! For each recommendation we make to clients, a dbt model returns exactly which resources in your project need attention. The package groups its dbt models by the type of meta-knowledge you may want to explore (View Highlight)