Data Products 101

What is a data product?

Business

• Data that we want to reuse so we apply the software development lifecycle to it.

• When we reuse data products we increase consistency. Data consistency provides data quality.

• A data product is a trusted, reusable, and consumable data asset that solves business problems, generates insights, and/or improves operational efficiency. It can be a database table, report, APIs, or machine learning model.

Technical

• A data product is made up of metadata and dataset instances

• Designed to be easily accessible to anyone with the right credentials

• Data products are the backbone of powerful data apps and help bridge the gap between data producers and consumers.