Community in Action! - Pete Williams

Published on December 21, 2022

Train Operating Company - Building an Internal Data Function from Scratch

Pete Williams (Director of Data @ Penguin Random House and Episode 7 guest of The Data Files podcast) recently lent his vast experience to a train operating company who were looking to build out their own internal data capability. He was able to lend a friendly and constructive ear to them to listen to what they want to achieve and to offer hindsight on his own experiences to help them build a picture of how best to apply those learnings.

Challenge:

  • How do we create effective metadata management?
  • Advice on how to build a 'data academy' internally to grow capability and skillsets.
  • Aligning our work with data to help achieve business outcomes.

Feedback & Outcomes:

  • "The chance to talk with someone and bounce ideas around is so helpful."
  • "There's 3 or 4 things from this I'm going to put into action straight away."
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