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Published inDec 2023
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Michele Pinto
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Michele Pinto

Michele Pinto is the Head of Engineering at Kensu. With over 15 years of experience, Michele has a great knack for understanding how data observability and data engineering are closely linked. He started his career as a software engineer and has worked since then in various roles, such as big data engineer, big data architect, head of data and until recently he was a Head of Engineering. He has a great community presence and believes in giving back to the community. He has also been a teacher for Digital Product Management Master TAG Innovation School in Milan, Italy. His collaboration on the book has been prompt, swift, eager, and very invested.
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Sammy El Khammal
Sammy El Khammal
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Sammy El Khammal

Sammy El Khammal works at Kensu. He started off as a field engineer and worked his way up to the position of product manager. In the past, he has also worked with Mercedes as their Business Development Analyst – Intern. He has also been an O'Reilly teacher for 3 workshops on data quality, lineage monitoring, and data observability. During that time, he provided some brilliant insights, very responsive behaviour, and immense talent and determination.
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Key components of data observability

In this section, we will see some examples of data observability metrics that are collected from inside applications and issues that can be raised from such quality issues. We will focus on detecting issues and to do so, we are going to create visuals of data observability issues in a Jupyter notebook.

If you want to follow the example, you can find it in the Chapter2 section of the GitHub repository. The name of the notebook is Visualise_Observability_Issues.ipynb.

In this part, we will focus on a timeliness, a completeness, and an accuracy issue.

The dataset that we provide is a basic example of marketing and sales data. The data represents the orders made on a web shop and consists of the following fields:

  • date: The date of the order
  • guid: A unique ID for the order
  • email: The email address linked to the order
  • page_visited: The number of pages the customer visited on the website
  • duration: How long the customer...
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Authors (2)

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Michele Pinto

Michele Pinto is the Head of Engineering at Kensu. With over 15 years of experience, Michele has a great knack for understanding how data observability and data engineering are closely linked. He started his career as a software engineer and has worked since then in various roles, such as big data engineer, big data architect, head of data and until recently he was a Head of Engineering. He has a great community presence and believes in giving back to the community. He has also been a teacher for Digital Product Management Master TAG Innovation School in Milan, Italy. His collaboration on the book has been prompt, swift, eager, and very invested.
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Sammy El Khammal

Sammy El Khammal works at Kensu. He started off as a field engineer and worked his way up to the position of product manager. In the past, he has also worked with Mercedes as their Business Development Analyst – Intern. He has also been an O'Reilly teacher for 3 workshops on data quality, lineage monitoring, and data observability. During that time, he provided some brilliant insights, very responsive behaviour, and immense talent and determination.
Read more about Sammy El Khammal