This post introduces the Amundsen project — its goals and users. You can learn more about a hosted version of Amundsen at Stemma. In order to increase the productivity of data scientists and research scientists at Lyft, we developed a data discovery application built on top of a metadata engine. Code named, Amundsen (after the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen), we improve the productivity of our
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