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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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completeness

/kəmˈpliːt.nəs/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The percentage of fields that are populated, of which a smaller, unmeasured percentage is populated correctly.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The extent to which all required values are present in a dataset, typically measured as the proportion of non-null entries against an expected population.

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See also
  • accuracyAgreement with the source system, which everyone has quietly agreed to call reality.
  • data quality dimensionOne of six words a vendor promises to measure and a scorecard promises to average into a single reassuring number.
  • default value pollutionThe reason a company believes a meaningful share of its customers were born on the first of January, 1900.