This is Data Insecurity, a blog series about all the ways organizations fail to keep data secure online. What is data security? To me, data security is ensuring only authorized users can access certain content when users are using your website and when they might be accessing it programmatically. …

please note: I will refer to two kinds of tables: a “table” (lowercase) is a general term for a data frame that contains data in rows and column. A “Table” (uppercase) is a specific term for a materialization, a concept that is explored below. Databases often follow a star …

It is difficult to move from working alone to working in a team. I don’t mean working as part of an organization where individuals run their own projects, I am talking about attempting to establish norms and standards across a team that individuals are then responsible for implementing in their …