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Case Study: Nutrafol saves 100+ hours per month on dbt code review with Datafold Data Diff

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Nutrafol
Industry
E-commerce
Challenge
Data model changes causing dashboard errors caught late
Headline result
Nutrafol's data team saves over 100 hours per month reviewing dbt code changes and reached 100% pull-request consistency using Datafold's Data Diff.

Key results

100+ hrs
Saved per month
100%
Pull-request consistency
<24 hrs
Reaction time to data outages
down from weeks

The challenge

Nutrafol, a direct-to-consumer hair-wellness company, ingested data from numerous sources, and unintended changes to data models introduced errors. Leadership sometimes discovered dashboard errors before the data team did, and the team lacked visibility into the downstream pipeline impact of code changes.

The solution

Nutrafol implemented Datafold's Data Diff platform with column-level lineage to validate code changes before they reached production and to surface the downstream impact of modifications during pull-request review.

Data Diff is great for scaling the PR review process. It creates consistency across every data engineer.

CD
Callie Davis
Vice President of Customer Data & Insights, Nutrafol

The results, in context

Nutrafol's data team saves more than 100 hours per month through automated regression testing and a streamlined tech-spec process, and achieved 100% consistency across pull-request reviews. The team also cut its reaction time to data outages from weeks to under 24 hours.

Products used

Datafold Data DiffDatafold Column-level lineage