Why You Should Identify Your Business-Critical Data

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• Author: Mikkel Dengsøe
• Full Title:: Why You Should Identify Your Business-Critical Data
• Category:: 🗞️Articles
• URL:: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-identify-your-business-critical-data-c58506116a41
• Finished date:: 2024-01-07

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Importance based on dashboard usage (View Highlight)

Importance based on dashboard C-suite usage (View Highlight)

Data models with many downstream dependencies (View Highlight)

Data models on the critical path (View Highlight)

How to keep your critical data model definitions updated Automate as much as possible around tagging your critical data models. For example: • Use check-model-tags from the pre-commit dbt package to enforce that each data model has a criticality tag • Build a script, or use a tool, that automatically adds a critical-path tag to all models that are upstream of a business-critical asset (View Highlight)

Defining criticality in the tool where you create the data asset (View Highlight)