Glossary · Data Lineage
Data Lineage
The complete record of data's origins, movements, and transformations throughout its lifecycle, enabling verification of how final results were derived from source inputs.
In practice
Lineage answers the question an auditor asks second: where did this number come from? It covers the extract, the cleaning steps, the factor applied and the calculation that produced the disclosed figure.
Where it shows upSample record
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