Democratizing Data Quality Through a Centralized Platform
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Bad data leads to bad decisions and broken customer experiences. Organizations depend on complete and accurate data to power their business, maintain efficiency, and uphold customer trust. With thousands of datasets and pipelines running, how do we ensure that all data meets quality standards, and that expectations are clear between producers and consumers? Investing in shared, flexible components and practices for monitoring data health is crucial for a complex data organization to rapidly and effectively scale. At Zillow, we built a centralized platform to meet our data quality needs across stakeholders. The platform is accessible to engineers, scientists, and analysts, and seamlessly integrates with existing data pipelines and data discovery tools. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of our platform’s capabilities, including: Giving producers and consumers the ability to define and view data quality expectations using a self-service onboarding portal Performing data quality validations using libraries built to work with spark Dynamically generating pipelines that can be abstracted away from users Flagging data that doesn’t meet quality standards at the earliest stage and giving producers the opportunity to resolve issues before use by downstream consumers Exposing data quality metrics alongside each dataset to provide producers and consumers with a comprehensive picture of health over time
Democratizing Data Quality Through a Centralized Platform
- 1 1 Smit Shah Yuliana Havryshchuk Democratizing Data Quality at Zillow through a Centralized Platform
- 2 Who We Are Data Governance Platform Team @ Zillow Smit Shah Senior Software Development Engineer, Big Data Yuliana Havryshchuk Software Development Engineer, Big Data
- 3 Agenda ● What is Zillow? ● Data Quality Challenges ● Centralized Data Quality Platform ○ Architecture ○ Self-Service ○ Pipeline integration ● Key Takeaways
- Zillow
- About Zillow ● Reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life’s next chapter * As of Q4-2020 ● Offer customers an on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting and financing with transparency and nearly seamless end-to-end service ● Most-visited real estate website in the United States
- Data Quality Challenges
- Why Monitor Data Quality? ● Data fuels many customer facing and internal services at Zillow that rely on high quality data ○ Zestimate ○ Zillow Offers ○ Zillow Premier Agent ○ Econ and many more ● Reliable performance of ML and Services requires certain level of data quality
- Challenges we Faced ● No standard way to monitor quality ● Lack of visibility into data health ● No known lineage between data and processes
- Centralized Data Quality Platform
- Data Quality Platform Increase Visibility of Data Health Integrate with Data Lineage Support Built-in Alerting Enable Safe Evolution of Rules Standardize Data Quality Rules 5 Pillars for Data Quality Platform
- Platform Architecture * As of May 2021
- Platform Architecture * As of May 2021
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- Platform Architecture * As of May 2021
- Self-Service Capabilities
- Self-Service Onboarding - Goals ● Must be scalable ● Must be accessible to all user archetypes ● Must require minimal configuration
- Self-Service Onboarding - Data Discovery * These values are simulated
- Self-Service Onboarding - Example * These values are simulated id name type page_views data_date 1 123 Green St house 709 2021-05-01 2 47 Walker Rd townhouse 132 2021-05-01 1225 City St #901 condo 800 2021-05-01 4 47 Walker Ave test 600 2021-05-01
- Self-Service Onboarding - Rule-based * These values are simulated
- Self-Service Monitoring - Rule-based * These values are simulated
- Self-Service Onboarding - Example * These values are simulated id name type page_views data_date 1 123 Green St house 709 2021-05-01 1 123 Green St house 820 2021-05-02 1 123 Green St house 12 2021-05-03 1 123 Green St house 760 2021-05-04
- Self-Service Onboarding - Metrics * These values are simulated
- Overview Metric * These values are simulated Self-Service Onboarding - Monitoring
- Behind the Scenes ● Rule-based monitors turn into contracts ● Metrics monitors turn into ML-based anomaly detection ● Register data quality requirements in config stores ● Dynamically generate validation pipelines
- Validation Libraries Built in-house: ● Luminaire Contract Evaluation Library (scala) for rule-based constraints ● Luminaire Anomaly Detection Library (python) for time-series metrics ○ https://github.com/zillow/luminaire
- Pipeline Integration
- Pipeline Integration (before) Producers Consumers
- Pipeline Integration (after) Producers Consumers *
- Validation Results ● Alert data users if any checks fail ● Integrate with pipeline execution to prevent propagation ● Provide visibility through data discovery tool ● Provide common understanding between producers and consumers
- Future Direction ● Tighter integration between components ● Expand libraries to support more use-cases ● Move from detection to diagnosis ● Validation for streaming data
- Key Takeaways
- Key Takeaways ● 5 pillars that helped us build a robust platform: standardization, visibility, evolution, alerting, lineage ● Alerting on data quality issues early allows proactive response ● Producing quality data increases trust in data and improves decisions made ● Data quality is a shared responsibility, and collaboration is needed to be successful
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