In terms of the effect of the data pipeline on our speed of analysis, understanding the data pipeline and the data flow is helpful in identifying a problem and resolving it quickly. A lot of times there is some level of ambiguity, and businesses don't understand that how the data flows. Understanding the data pipeline helps them in quickly identifying the problems. They can solve the identified problems and bottlenecks in the data flow. For example, they can identify the data set that is required for a specific analysis and then bring in the data from another system.