Kim: Organizations rarely update data models and diagrams after initial creation
Shinji Kim · Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim · Sep 12, 2022 · at 13:55
Shinji Kim is the Founder and CEO of Select Star. She discusses common user behavior and data documentation decay observed across data teams during a live product walkthrough.
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“One of the things that we noticed from observing our users is that they have data models and different diagrams that they've created when they first created the data model, but these things don't get updated.”
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