Quick Question - Your responses

Last Friday I asked you what first comes to mind when you think about ​data modeling​.

Your replies were honest and led to some great dialogue.

Here are a few themes I pulled out (quoted parts are replies from you).

Data modeling is:

…frustrating. “Business users were so busy that they didn’t give me valuable feedback until after we’d launched the finished product.”

…time consuming. “our data team is slow...really slow”.

...”designing the shape(s) and possibly the flows for each data set.” Love this. Data modeling is putting the data in a shape.

…”ETL Processing”. Totally! ETL/ELT is all about delivering data models to business teams!

...about “creating a plan, whether tangibly or conceptually, to be able to do what we want with our data”.

…”nope, not for me”. Yes, I have a few people on this list who aren’t data people (so glad you are here)

More than one of you made the joke about data having a modeling job ;-)

Data modeling is a fundamental part of any data program and the linchpin connecting data teams and business teams.

I'm sure we'll talk about it here more in the future.

Have a great weekend.

Sawyer