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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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data certification

/ˈdeɪ.tə ˌsɜːr.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A badge granted on a Tuesday and never re-checked against the Wednesday data.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A formal attestation that a dataset has met defined quality criteria and is approved for a stated class of use.

Filed

See also

data qualityA program everyone funds, no one owns, and the dashboard reports as green.
quality slaA promise about data with a number, a period, and no clause describing what happens when it breaks.
trusted datasetA dataset trusted because it was labeled trusted, by the team that did the labeling.