HeyJaredThe Data Governor
Practical data governance guidance from a practitioner who's actually done it — at Wells Fargo, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Nestle Purina. Most data governance content is consultant theory. This channel is different.
- Indexed videos, last 90 days
- 13
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
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- ~1.7K subscribers
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- Jul 25, 2026
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90‑Second Crash Course Visual Data Lineage #shorts #datagovernance (opens the original)
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A column gets renamed. Two files, one reviewer. It merges — and by Monday three dashboards are broken, with nobody able to say why. That is what data lineage is for: the documented path your data actually takes, and the answer to “if I change this, what breaks?” before you merge instead of after. It is also where quality rules belong, and how you prove to an auditor which systems touch PII. Full practitioner guide: https://thedatagovernor.com/data-lineage-leveraging-the-power/ #dataengineering #
What Is a Data Steward #datagovernance #dataquality (opens the original)
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#thedatagovernor #datasteward #governance 🏄 The Data Governor Blog - https://thedatagovernor.com What does a data steward actually do to keep your systems running? This role is the frontline of data integrity, responsible for maintaining accuracy and reliable documentation. We break down how these professionals manage data quality and promote best practices through daily collaboration. Subscribe for practitioner-level insights on data governance every week. datagovernance data steward data gover
Do you REALLY know what data governance is? (opens the original)
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If you can't identify who owns your board deck numbers, you don't have data governance. This is the ultimate test: if finding the person authorized to change a single customer metric takes you longer than a minute, your process is broken. We strip away the framework jargon to show you how to define accountability in data management and improve your data quality today. Run the maturity assessment to see where your organization stands. thedatagovernor.com data governance board deck data management
Golden Record Explained in 50 Seconds | Master Data Management #MDM #DataGovernance (opens the original)
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Four versions of the same customer. Sales, Support, Billing, and Web each think theirs is right. Master data management doesn't pick a winner. It builds one. The golden record is assembled field by field using survivorship rules: the most complete name, the most recently touched phone number, the address validated against the postal service. Four fragments in, one trusted record out. I implemented this at scale in manufacturing with Profisee. The tool was never the hard part. Getting four teams
What Is Data Governance? A Practitioner Actually Explains It (opens the original)
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Data governance is deciding who is allowed to change the number - and writing it down before someone has to ask. Here is the definition that survives contact with a real company. Pick one number on your board deck. Now find the person who is ALLOWED to change it. Not the person who can - the person who's allowed to. If that took you more than a minute, you already know what data governance is. You just don't have it written down. This is data governance from the trenches: not a 40-page framework
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