“Reducing the complexity of managing data in a simply magical way”

Shane Gibson (Shagility)
2 min readApr 16, 2024

#AgileData

Easy to say, a little harder to do.

Upload data, ask a quick question of the data. Pretty easy to do these days, the new Text to SQL rage will make it even easier.

Make the entire process repeatable so you can upload new versions of that data regualry and guarantee that you will always get the same answer to the same question, is a little more complex.

For those that work in the data domain, you know there are a thousand complex challenges that new data always brings with it.

Automating that complex data work is what we focus on doing.

How do we take a data tasks that Nigel Vining would typically do. via data engineering and turn it into data work I can do in the AgileData App, is a question we ask every day.

For example, how can I roll back a data load into a History Tile if I really need to.

Again those of you in the data domain know all the data tasks that have to happen as a result of what seems like a fairly simple thing to do.

By automating this complex data work, we reduce the time, effort and cognition our #AgileDataNetwork partners have to do, when they are doing the data work for their customers.

Less data work for our partners, means higher margin for our partners.

And here is a little behind the scenes view of how we work at AgileData.

Nigel really really really hates drossy repetitive data work.

So everytime I am doing data work for a customer using our AgileData App, and I get stuck with some complexity that I cant resolve, that data work goes to Nigel to do it for me.

Nigel really doesnt like that work, so he automates that data work, those data tasks, so I can do it myself next time, and he never has to do it again.

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Shane Gibson (Shagility)

Im part of the AgileData team striving to build the most magical data App and Platform in the world. If you want to find me then just look for Shagility.