Data Products: Tutorial & Best Practices

Data products are ready-to-use collections of data, metadata, code, and policies that facilitate an end goal through the use of data. They can be categorized based on alignment (source, consumer, aggregate) and function (raw data, derived data, supporting algorithms/decision-making). Key features of data products include discoverability, trustworthiness, and interoperability. They offer benefits such as reusability, self-service, agility, and improved decision-making. Data products also enable the creation of data meshes, a decentralized architecture for managing distributed data assets.

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