Better Together, Data & Product: Featuring Chad Sanderson of Data Quality Camp

In Episode 2 of "Better Together, Data & Product," our host Timo Dechau chats with the person whose name has become synonymous with data contracts: Chad Sanderson, founder of the fast-growing "Data Quality Camp" Slack community, and former Head of Product for the Data Platform at Convoy.  Chad has also held data and product roles at companies ranging from Microsoft to Sephora and Subway. This episode is packed with knowledge for Product people who want to learn about the importance and challenges of data quality; it also has lots of wisdom for Data people who'll be delighted to learn that the problems that are driving them crazy right now–well, they're the exactly same problems driving lots of other Data teams crazy, too.Just some of the highlights:• Chad explains how his extensive experience in experiments and ML led him to a "light bulb moment" about data quality. Realizing that data quality is a systemic issue that's holding pretty much all data projects back from reaching their full potential led to Chad becoming obsessed with the issue - writing about it everyday, and building a large and thriving Slack community focused on data quality. • There's lots of talk these days about data teams adopting software engineering practices - but what if we're approaching that topic from the wrong angle? Chad reminds us that value and utility of data in companies pre-dates software... As an introduction to his belief that we can't just slap a software engineering template onto data practices. • When you build a digital product, the goal is generally that you'll have some initial business success, and then you'll scale up. Scaling up carries inherent challenges for each stakeholder in a company, and Timo and Chad discuss why scaling up is VERY difficult for data teams. • We know that Data people love being Data people. But also - working in data can be extremely isolating. Timo and Chad talk about how they've been able to find community, as well as intellectual and business growth, by leading and taking part in public discussions about data. "Better Together, Product & Data" is produced by Kubit, in partnership with Timo Dechau. *Better Together, Data & Product is produced in partnership with the product analytics company Kubit and the product analytics expert Timo Dechau.*