Feeding data back to the product teams
As mentioned earlier in this chapter in the Who is a consumer, and who is a generator? section, although we often think of a data consumer as a data practitioner (for example, a BI analyst or a data scientist), they’re not the only ones who consume data. In fact, product teams, and the services they create, are perhaps the largest and most important data consumers in your organization.
These services do not exist in isolation. They all take some data as input, perform some process or take some action, and return new data as output. And when it comes to input data, they have the same expectations as any other data consumer. They need to understand what data is available, how it is structured, and any other context around the data. They need to know how dependable, correct, and available that data is. They need to know where that data comes from, who owns it, and the support levels being provided.
Often, these services make data available...
