A blog by Mingwei Gu
Practical writing on data engineering, analytics, and the craft of building data teams that stakeholders trust.
Stakeholders
I used to believe in full data transparency. Put all data out there even in its rawest form with little context. If someone cares enough, they'll ask about it. But over the years, I realized I was shirking responsibility and pushing it to others. The …
Infrastructure
Fivetran and Stitch are great. They extract your data from lots of popular software tools and databases. And they load it into your data warehouse, where …
Stakeholders
You want to be a thought partner for your stakeholders. To consult on how data and analytics can solve business problems. But what if you aren't …
Stakeholders
Your data and analytics team serves stakeholders from various departments. How do you choose which projects to work on?
Collaboration
Is it cutting corners or is it overkill? Collaboration is important for many teams. But it's really hard if teammates haven't agreed on what quality looks like.
Support
When your data team is growing, the way you did support before won't cut it anymore. You don't want this work to balloon and not leave …
Stakeholders
You want to strategically engage your stakeholders and move beyond simply responding to requests and providing a service. You want to align your project outcomes with …
Training
Your colleagues regularly come to you for help with their SQL queries, leaving you less time than you'd like for your own projects. And, your colleagues …
