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Video Series

Entropy Explains

Portrait of Simon Harrer

Narrated by Dr. Simon Harrer

Co-Founder & CEO, Entropy Data

Entropy Explains is a series of short animated explainers on data contracts, data products, and semantics. Each episode explains one concept in under three minutes, with animations instead of slides.

Episodes

Entropy Explains, episode 1: Data Contracts
Episode 1 · 2:02

Data Contracts

Why data consumers break when data changes, what goes into a data contract in the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS), and how the open-source Data Contract Editor and Data Contract CLI keep the promise.

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Entropy Explains, episode 2: Data Contracts and Data Products
Episode 2 · 2:38

Data Contracts and Data Products

A data product is more than just data: data, code, and metadata as one unit, owned by one team. How it lives in Git as an Open Data Product Standard (ODPS) file, is published to a data marketplace, and moves from v1 to v2 without outages.

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