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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by danielscrubs on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @02:10AM (#20153326)
Let’s say you have 20000 tables in total for a company. They are in 10 different databases. You have no overview over the data and no comments. You don’t have a starting point for where information x are.

Welcome to my reality.

Would I love a data architect and a domain expert in my team? Yeah.

Will I run around booking meetings with everyone that even hints at working with data like a headless hen? Yeah.

Is this the normal procedure for Data Scientists in big and old companies? More so than I would like.

Oh! And I forgot that the security department will constantly deny your access to data you need (until you force their hand).

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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by DEADBEEFC0FFEE on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:46PM (#20159814)
Everything you mention is true and is compounded if the data healthcare related. Privacy concerns, data from different systems that claim to be the same. Preventing reidentification.
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