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

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data downtime

/ˈdeɪ.tə ˈdaʊn.taɪm/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The hours the data was wrong, billed entirely to whoever used it, not whoever produced it.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The cumulative period during which data is missing, late, or wrong — the data analogue of system downtime, measured in hours of untrustworthy state.

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See also
  • data observabilityThe ability to watch the data break in real time, in high resolution, on a screen no one is assigned to.
  • incident postmortemA document that names the cause precisely, assigns the corrective action vaguely, and recurs on schedule.
  • stalenessThe state a dashboard reaches quietly, while still rendering its last good number with full confidence.