🫀Anatomy of A Data Product

Understanding the underlying layers within a data product and how it affects data product management

A data product is an application or tool that uses data to help businesses/users improve their decisions. Data products provide the user easy, non-technical access to Data science methodologies — meaning it can abstract the complications of data science to provide a concrete output to the users to make decisions that are critical to their work.

Types of Data Products

Data products themselves can be classified under two categories:

Data Product Types.

Decision Supporting

Products of this type are mostly used to derive insights from the underlying data. They can either:

1. Provide raw data access
   Where the user processes the data on their end to generate insights. Think of database access tools like DBeaver, MySQL Workbench, etc.
2. Provide derived data access
   Where a large portion of the data is cleaned up, and the user has access to only the cleaned-up data points. Advanced Analytics run on that data can also…