5 Common Data Governance Pain Points for Analysts & Data Scientists

<blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Those data governance guys sure know how to make life interesting&hellip;&rdquo;</p> </blockquote> <p>It&rsquo;s time to cut them some slack.</p> <p>Drawing from my experience as an engineer and data scientist at one of Australia&rsquo;s banking giants for&nbsp;<a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/from-data-warehouses-and-lakes-to-data-mesh-a-guide-to-enterprise-data-architecture-e2d93b2466b1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">half a decade</a>, I&rsquo;ve had the privilege of straddling both sides of this heated fence: being a hungry consumer of data while simultaneously standing as a gatekeeper for others.</p> <p>In this article, I&rsquo;ll do a three-part dive into&hellip;</p> <ol> <li><em>Fundamentals</em>: How data&nbsp;<strong>flows</strong>&nbsp;through organisations.&nbsp;<em>It&rsquo;s messy!</em></li> <li><em>Understanding</em>&nbsp;<strong>common pain points</strong>&nbsp;encountered by data users.</li> <li><em>Enlightenment</em>: Appreciating how&nbsp;<strong>guardrails support innovation</strong>.</li> </ol> <p>The third point is really important.</p> <p>Organisations worldwide are&nbsp;<a href="https://generativeai.pub/modern-enterprise-data-strategy-a-guide-for-analysts-data-scientists-engineers-2d4b45a31427" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">scrambling</a>&nbsp;to become data-driven firms. There is a constant tension between fostering innovation yet having appropriate controls in place to keep a company&rsquo;s customers, staff and reputation safe.</p> <p>As new data use cases arrive &mdash; and that&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>all the time</em>&nbsp;&mdash; data governance structures&nbsp;<em>try</em>&nbsp;to evolve in tandem. And it&rsquo;s typically a struggle, because unbridled innovation has no natural speed limit.</p> <p><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/5-common-data-governance-pain-points-for-analysts-data-scientists-8efe8a007ac2"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>