DJ Patil, former United States Chief Data Scientist, defined a data product as “a product that facilitates an end goal through the use of data” (from his book Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product, 2012 (View Highlight)
Simon O’Regan published an article called Designing Data Products that lists very clear examples of data products and groups them by type: raw data, derived data, algorithms, decision support and automated decision-making. (View Highlight)
One of the principles of the data mesh paradigm is to consider data as a product. Sometimes this principle has been abbreviated to “data products”, hence the confusion (View Highlight)