Introducing Decube’s Autocomplete: Smarter Data Curation

Empower data governance teams by automating descriptions, reducing manual efforts, and enhancing data curation workflows.

By

Melanie Yong

Updated on

November 8, 2024

In the world of data governance, creating and maintaining high-quality documentation for datasets is essential. Yet, many data governance teams are all too familiar with the challenges of manually curating descriptions, especially in organizations with expansive data assets. Decube’s Autocomplete feature is here to change that, making data curation simpler, faster, and smarter.

Why Autocomplete? Overcoming Common Data Documentation Pain Points

The Burden of Manual Curation

Every dataset in an organization needs clear, consistent descriptions to ensure data discoverability and usability. But manually curating data assets is time-consuming and resource-intensive. Data governance professionals must review every column and table, a process that becomes tedious as the number of assets grows.

Scaling Documentation with Expanding Assets

When dealing with hundreds or thousands of tables, manually updating descriptions isn’t just cumbersome—it’s practically unmanageable. This can lead to outdated documentation and inconsistencies across datasets, impacting data discoverability and governance.

How Decube’s Autocomplete Optimizes Data Governance Workflows

The Autocomplete feature empowers data governance teams by automating descriptions, reducing manual efforts, and enhancing data curation workflows. Here’s how:

  • Intelligent, Auto-Suggested Descriptions: Based on patterns from the table itself, relationships to similar tables, and schema structures, Autocomplete delivers contextually relevant descriptions that data governance teams can immediately use or easily refine.
  • Consistency Across Data Assets: Autocomplete ensures consistency by offering similar descriptions for related datasets, making it easier to maintain clear, uniform documentation across large volumes of data.

The 3 steps to Automatic Curation

Just a click of a button.

Navigating Decube’s Autocomplete is designed to be simple, making it easy for users to generate, review, and manage descriptions in the Data Catalog:

1. Generate with a Click

Start by clicking on the magic wand icon on any empty description field within the Catalog. Autocomplete also supports rewriting—hover over an existing description, and you’ll see the option to refresh it with a newly suggested draft.

2. Review the Suggested Draft

Autocomplete presents a first-draft description tailored from metadata, table structures, and related datasets, giving teams an intelligent starting point for documentation. This reduces the need for manual input, accelerating workflows and helping users maintain focus on higher-priority tasks.

3. Edit or Submit as a Change Request

Once the suggested draft appears, users can choose to edit it for additional customization or submit it directly as a change request. Decube’s approval workflow ensures all description changes are reviewed, safeguarding governance standards.

Streamlined Data Curation with Decube’s Autocomplete

With Autocomplete, data governance teams can tackle documentation tasks more efficiently. By automating the process, Decube empowers organizations to improve data discoverability, maintain consistency, and reduce the time and resources spent on documentation. This innovation doesn’t just make governance workflows easier—it ensures your data assets remain accurate, accessible, and ready for use.

Ready to quickly curate your data assets? Book a meeting with our team to see how Decube can transform your data curation process.

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