THE METADATA MESS – Story Summary and Data Management Lesson

"THE METADATA MESS" is the fifth chapter of the book, "The Data Garden (And Other Data Allegories").


SYNOPSIS:

A data detective story: following a series of complaints from customers and employees, a retail data product company hires you as a data investigator to get to the bottom of the problems. As you trace the challenges from the data shop, through the data warehouse and back to where the data’s coming from, you uncover the root causes that need to be addressed to resolve them.


FIRST PARAGRAPH:

“You’ve been called in to help. You’ve not taken on a job quite this big before, but it’s your area of specialism: retail troubleshooting. In other words, you’re a consultant who helps improve the performance of data shops and retail outlets.”


DATA MANAGEMENT LESSON 5:

Metadata management is like supply chain orchestration. You need to label and track your stock to be able to optimise logistics and meet customer expectations. Understanding what data you have and where it is, is crucial to delivering value from it.



ABOUT THE BOOK

“The Data Garden (And Other Data Allegories)” is a book consisting of six FICTIONAL stories, which use metaphors and analogies to bring key Data Management topics to life, without the jargon.

“Every successful business depends on data. All digital transformations run on data. The best customer experiences use data to be better than the competition.”

Understanding and leveraging Data is crucial to business success, and enabling people with non-technical backgrounds to understand WHY and HOW is crucial.

This is the world’s first book of fictional Data Allegories, which have been met by universal acclaim by Data Professionals and Senior Executives across the world.


YOU CAN GET A COPY FROM AMAZON

Please do check it out, if you haven’t already! You can buy a copy of The Data Garden from Amazon, in both Kindle and Paperback formats.


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If you are interested in getting a copy of the book, you can find “The Data Garden” on Amazon online stores. Here are links to the paperback version on UK and US stores:


Amazon UK store (Paperback): 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Data-Garden-Other-Allegories-Management/dp/B08KFWR53C/ 


Amazon US store (Paperback):

https://www.amazon.com/Data-Garden-Other-Allegories-Management/dp/B08KFWR53C/ 


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