Data Documentation Best Practices

Save time, increase transparency, and provide high-quality data

Madison Schott
Towards Data Science
8 min readAug 2, 2022

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As an analytics engineer, I am constantly tracking down owners of various datasets I see referenced in old data models. There are a ton of Google sheets floating around, being used in complex data models, yet nobody really knows how they are being used. I typically have to message multiple team…

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