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

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proactive data quality

/proʊˈæk.tɪv ˈdeɪ.tə ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/ - n.

1. Term struck pending a single budgeted owner — until prevention has a name and a calendar, it is firefighting described in the future tense.

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See also
  • data stewardshipA responsibility added to a job description, never to a calendar.
  • incident postmortemA document that names the cause precisely, assigns the corrective action vaguely, and recurs on schedule.
  • remediationFixing the rows now and scheduling the cause for a quarter that does not arrive.