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DataDragons: Taming Inherited Data

Give data teams a vivid, shared method for governing inherited datasets before old errors become new authority.

Audience

Data stewards, M&E data leads, anyone governing long-lived datasets across turnover.

Problem

Inherited datasets arrive with missing context, semantic drift, duplicates, old compromises, and undocumented decisions that quietly shape every analysis built on top of them.

Outcome

Participants learn to name data failure modes, prioritise remediation, preserve meaning across handovers, and decide when a dataset is too compromised to automate.

This is for you if...

  • Your team inherited a dataset no one fully trusts but everyone still uses.
  • Turnover, migration, or donor reporting has stripped away context.
  • You need non-specialists and data leads to talk about data quality without getting stuck in blame.

By the end, participants can...

  • Identify inherited-data risks before dashboards and models amplify them.
  • Distinguish missing data, decayed data, contradictory data, and politically convenient data.
  • Create governance rituals for handover, preservation, and refusal.
  • Use playful naming to make messy data problems discussable without making them unserious.
Sequence

Module sequence

  1. Module 1
    The Liability Sponge

    Stop-work authority. How junior staff get scapegoated, and how to architect around it.

  2. Module 2
    Accuracy Theater

    Reading metrics critically. Where the failing 6% actually lands.

  3. Module 3
    The Audit Trail

    AI-use guidelines for associates and contractors. What to document, how, why.

  4. Module 4
    Refusal as Architecture

    Designing systems that can fail safely. Negative power only.

Included artifacts and templates

  • Data Dragon ID Kit
  • Data decay foundation guide
  • Taming inherited data exercises
  • Companion archive and newsletter arc

Delivery options

Half-day workshopCohort trainingSelf-paced trackEnterprise/custom programme
Best-fit advisory link

Governance critique

Bring this into advisory when inherited data is already feeding dashboards, models, public reporting, or operational decisions.

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Materials and archive links

DataDragons training archive

Interactive taming guides, realm maps, slayer quests, and field specimens.

DataDragons newsletter arc

The narrative companion arc behind the training product.

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