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Why your event data keeps letting you down (and how to fix it)

Original: How Data Governance Can Help Collect Good Event Data

May 25, 2025
13 min read
Article
Intermediate
How Data Governance Can Help Collect Good Data | databeats

Summary

João Lousada explains how clear ownership and naming policies build event trust.

Who This Is For

Product Analysts
Analytics Engineers
Product Managers

Key Takeaways

  • Identify signs of bad event data like incorrectness, incompleteness, and redundancy in your tracking implementation
  • Create a detailed tracking plan that documents events, properties, data types, and ownership to serve as your source of truth
  • Implement ownership tags and clear accountability for each data source to prevent tracking drift
  • Build trust in your analytics by ensuring data accuracy, understandability, and relevance before scaling collection

Tools & Technologies

Data warehouse Event tracking tools Tracking plan documentation tools Analytics platforms

Topics Covered

data-governance event-quality trust analytics