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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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accuracy

/ˈæk.jʊ.rə.si/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Agreement with the source system, which everyone has quietly agreed to call reality.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The degree to which a recorded value correctly describes the real-world entity or event it represents.

Evidence

Seen in the wild · 2

Master data management returns wearing an AI badge. The job description has not changed.Definition Drift
Retrieval-augmented generation is a data-quality project nobody scoped.Business Sense Required

See also

data quality dimensionOne of six words a vendor promises to measure and a scorecard promises to average into a single reassuring number.
system of recordTerm struck pending the definitions of accuracy, ownership, and reconciliation it claims to settle — a record is not authoritative because it was named first.
validityProof that a value followed the rules, and no proof at all that the rules described anything true.