Changes and data contracts
Silent change
A new enrolment status reaches the data overnight, and each side of the university saw only half of the change.
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When things go wrong
Short films about what goes wrong on a data platform, and how a good one copes. Watch them in any order, after The Inner Life of Data.
The films
Data quality checks
Too good to be true
Applications jump 38% overnight. A test on the total decides whether anyone acts on the number.
Four sides of every change
Each film puts people on four sides: technical or business, producing or using the data. Cyan outlines are technical; gold outlines are business.
In Silent change:
Produces · technical
Ben, student system team
Produces · business
Mei, registrar's office
Uses · technical
Sam, data engineer on call
Uses · business
Ana, Head of School
In Too good to be true:
Produces · technical
Rosa, admissions system team
Produces · business
Leila, admissions office
Uses · technical
Sam, data engineer
Uses · business
David, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, chairs the planning committee