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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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anomaly detection

/əˈnɒm.ə.li dɪˈtek.ʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A system that reliably notices the unusual and forwards it to an inbox that treats everything as usual.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The automated identification of data points or patterns that deviate materially from an established expectation or historical baseline.

Evidence

Seen in the wild · 1

Your Pipeline Learned to Call Yesterday's Breakage NormalDefinition Drift

See also

alert fatigueA channel so loud it has achieved the silence it was built to prevent.
data downtimeThe hours the data was wrong, billed entirely to whoever used it, not whoever produced it.
data observabilityThe ability to watch the data break in real time, in high resolution, on a screen no one is assigned to.