Unstructured: The MyDataWork Blog
Making analytical work visible, valuable, and strategic for data-driven organizations.
What Snowflake gives you — and the practitioner layer it doesn’t capture
Snowflake gives you a lot. Centralized data, elastic compute, robust governance primitives, query history, fine-grained access controls. For most analytics teams, it’s the most operationally mature surface in their stack. If you’re running dbt on top of Snowflake, you have even more: a strong dependency graph across your transformations, model descriptions, owner tags, lineage in the dbt docs site. The combination is genuinely powerful. But there’s a layer above all of this that neither Snowflake
Your 30-60-90 Day Plan for Building the Work Context Layer Your AI Strategy Will Need
Every organization is being asked to “do something with AI.” The vendors selling AI agents assume your analytical work context exists in a form they can use. In most organizations, it doesn’t — not yet. Your analyses live in folders, dashboards, scripts, and individual memory. The agents your leadership is about to deploy need that work to be visible, structured, and connected before they can do anything useful with it. MyDataWork’s Explorer plan is 90
What your Tableau dashboards depend on — and what your catalog isn’t tracking
One way MyDataWork makes a difference in your data work The Tableau workbook is where exploration lives. A sales VP filters the executive scorecard by region and finds a territory that’s been underperforming for two quarters. A marketing analyst slices campaign performance by channel and segment to figure out why last month’s spend underdelivered. An operations lead drills into a service-level dashboard and traces a delay back to one upstream process. The interactivity is
How MyDataWork improves Power BI user outcomes
One way MyDataWork makes a difference in your data work You build dashboards in Power BI. That’s your primary surface for the work that matters — the executive KPI views, the regional sales drilldowns, the operational dashboards leadership checks on their phones. Power BI gives you a lot. The Lineage View in Power BI Service shows you the dataflows feeding your semantic models, the registered external sources behind those dataflows, and the reports and
MyDataWork v1.1
Proactive Intelligence and Wider Support MAY 15, 2026 – After several weeks since general availability, MyDataWork v1.1 is now live. Analysts, BI developers, data engineers, data scientists, and the leaders who manage them benefit from a meaningfully more proactive workspace, broader file format coverage, and clearer accountability around how AI is used. For readers new to MyDataWork: the platform is a workspace where data professionals catalog the analytical work they do — the files, scripts,
MyDataWork is Now Generally Available
What changed between Early Access and GA — and what’s still ahead MAY 4, 2026 – After several months of Early Access development, MyDataWork is now generally available. Analysts, BI developers, data engineers, data scientists, and the leaders who manage them can sign up directly at mydatawork.com to start organizing their analytical work. For readers new to MyDataWork: the platform is a workspace where data professionals catalog the analytical work they do — the files,