🎯 End-to-End Guide to Building Data Products
Collection of our Top Resources, from Strategy to Data Product Evolution, and more!
This is a collection of materials addressing all you need to know about building data products for your use cases or your organisation. We keep updating this series.
Ch 1
The Data Product Strategy | Becoming Metrics-First
Understanding the Essence of Data "AI as the new Electricity” has been evangelised by Andrew NG and the data community from a transformational point of view. “Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100. years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several years.” - Andrew …
Ch 2
Where Exactly Data Becomes Product: Illustrated Guide to Data Products in Action
Like all software systems, data or AI use cases are supported by deep underlying infrastructures. But why has the infrastructure specific to data evolved into one of the most overwhelming of the lot? The brief answer is the transient element of data, which isn’t such a dominating presence in general software systems. Data is varied, dynamic, and always …
Ch 3
Metrics-Focused Data Strategy with Model-First Data Products | Issue #48
TOC Concept: Quenching the perpetual business curiosity
Quick Reads for the Busy Bee🐝
We have covered the four stages of the Data Product Lifecycle in detail across individual chapters. For a quick read, here are the four stages at a glance: Design, Develop, Deploy, Evolve ♻️
For a more detailed breakdown, refer to the thorough segments below⬇️
Ch 4
How to Build Data Products? | Design: Part 1/4
Much like product development, the first stage in Data Product Development is Design. In this article, we are addressing the nuances of the design stage specifically. This piece is ideally suited for a Data Product Manager or a data practitioner performing the functions of a Data Product Manager. We’ll dive right in.
Ch 5
How to Build Data Products? | Develop: Part 2/4
Once you have completed the design stage of data products and specifically know what you're going to do, and you have clear metrics in place, you can then go into the development stage and actually start building the data product. The Develop Stage is where the data product developers come into play, and business…
Ch 6
How to Build Data Products? Deploy: Part 3/4
This is part of the Data Product Lifecycle Series. If you’re new here, feel free to refer to: Stage 1: Designing Data Products Stage 2: Building Data Products
Ch 7
How to Build Data Products | Evolve: Part 4/4
This is part of the Data Product Lifecycle Series. If you’re new here, feel free to refer to: Stage 1: Designing Data Products Stage 2: Developing Data Products Stage 3: Deploying Data Products
Ch 8
Bringing Home Your Very First Data Product | Issue #49
This piece is a community contribution from Francesco, an expert craftsman of efficient Data Architectures using various patterns. He embraces new patterns as well, such as Data Mesh and Fabric, to capitalize on data value more effectively. We highly appreciate his contribution and readiness to share his knowledge with MD101.
Ch 9
Medallion Approach to Data Products: Beyond the Promised "Gold"
This piece is a community contribution from Francesco, an expert craftsman of efficient Data Architectures using various patterns. He embraces new patterns, such as Data Products, Data Mesh, and Fabric, to capitalise on data value more effectively. We highly appreciate his contribution and readiness to share his knowledge with MD101.
Ch 10
Building your Sausage Machine for Data Products 🌭: Less Tech, More Strategy | Issue #37
There's an idiom: “Like watching sausage getting made.” The idea being that you may like how sausage tastes, but that if you saw how sausage was made, you would find it a lot less appealing. The idiom applies not just to sausages but to the unsavory activities that are the backdrop for what we enjoy or admire, from law to medicine to politics to whateve…
Ch 11
The Essential "Personality Traits" You Need in Your Data Platform | Issue #40
Have you heard of Napoleon's famous saying, 'An army marches on its stomach?' This quote resonates with the idea that an army's success relies on properly providing sustenance for its soldiers.
Ch 12
The Essence of Having Your Own Data Developer Platform | Issue #9
TOC What is a Data Developer Platform (DDP)
Ch 13
Transitioning to a Data Product Ecosystem: Leveraging the Evolutionary Architecture
With the rapid introduction of new and disruptive innovations in the data space, CDOs are in a very tricky fight-or-flight mode. It’s harmful not only for the role but also for organisations increasingly experiencing higher attrition. The disruption is not just on a technical level but also on a resource level, which is especially precarious when the ro…
Ch 14
Building Data Platforms: The Mistake Organisations Make | Issue #54
As data platform developers would relate, it’s undeniable how thrilled and hopped up we get on the meditative process of building things. Sometimes, the hit is so remarkable that developers might even start building just for the process, not really getting bothered by who or when somebody uses what we built. I bet product managers would relate.
Others | Facets of Data Products
Use Cases
Conceptual
Design Paradigm & Modeling
Semantics-Specific
Governance
Contracts
Infrastructure
Leveraging Existing Stacks
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