Extreme Self-Service: Turning Data Consumers into Data Constructors

Small data teams invariably have a supply and demand problem. From requests for new data products to the classic ‘why does my data look funny?’, triaging and prioritizing data work can become a full time job. However, in many cases with a small amount of training data consumers can create their own data products. How do we help data consumers to help themselves, without hurting everyone else? In this talk, we discuss lessons learned from taking an ‘extreme’ approach to self-service analytics: developing and sharing best practices, building a data community, encouraging SQL literacy, and constructing robust guard rails.