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In this episode, Scott interviewed Lauren Maffeo, author of the book Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up and adjunct Lecturer at George Washington University. To be clear, she was only representing her own views on the episode.

Some key takeaways/thoughts from Lauren's point of view:

1. In governance, a very easy way to go down a bad path is to not automate your standards. Making governance an easy aspect of data work will go a long, long way.
2. ?Controversial?: As an industry in general, data governance maturity is still at the infancy phase. And the pace of maturation is far lower than other aspects of software like security.
3. The majority of organizations are not mature enough with data governance to get a lot of value from things like ML or NLP.
4. Data governance best practices are hard to come by. There isn't really even a large community specific to data governance for people to easily exchange ideas.
5. If the...