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Last week one of my friends wrote me an email looking for advice.  Here’s the body of the email: is there a basic way to teach oneself basic data management or even just database access skills? Like SQL? Don’t wanna learn to code, just to look at DATA I’ve included my response to them below in case it’s useful to anyone else: Okay, if you’re looking to get into data and...

Data catalogs are the hot new thing in the data space. Lots of people are starting companies to solve the problem of “data discoverability” and lots of investor money is flowing into those efforts. While I’m all for more people innovating on tooling in the space, I’ve been a bit skeptical of a lot of these tools and so I want to use this blog post to try to put into words why that’s the case. The...