Summary of The Return on Analytics Engineering

00:00:00 - 00:20:00

The video discusses the importance of analytics engineering, its benefits, and how to ensure data quality. It recommends that organizations new to analytics engineering learn about the discipline's quality and value, and how it impacts an organization's collaboration, readability, and navigation.

• 00:00:00 David Jayate Lake discusses the importance of analytics engineering and its benefits for organizations. He highlights three key benefits: quality, value, and impact. He recommends that organizations new to analytics engineering learn about the discipline's quality and value, and how it impacts an organization's collaboration, readability, and navigation.
• 00:05:00 The speaker discusses how analytics engineering and bi development differ in terms of how data is modeled and assembled. Analytics engineering is designed to be modular and easily readable by other teams, while bi development is based on black-box stored procedures that are difficult to understand and maintain. Analytics engineering is also based on a product mindset, which minimizes context switching and maximizes the benefits of the analytics team. Gold data is the most important data in an organization, and it should be small and manageable.
• 00:10:00 The author discusses how analytics engineering helps to speed up development and improve quality. He also points out that data can be segregated into "gold" and "non-gold" data, and that analytics engineering helps to ensure that business logic is defined and tested globally.
• 00:15:00 The video discusses how, in order to maintain trust between stakeholders and ensure data quality, analytics engineers must create clean data models and provide supervisors with the ability to make decisions based on data.
• 00:20:00 The speaker discusses how analytics engineering has become more important in recent years, and how it has created a resilience in the discipline that was not present before. She advises striving for excellence rather than perfection, and offers advice on how to keep track of your goals and achieve them.