Data quality · The causes · Element

The incentive

Whether anyone benefits from the data being wrong.

The part

What it is

Fields that feed a target are entered differently from fields that do not, and the difference is not carelessness.

Where an incentive exists, no amount of training or validation fixes the data; the incentive has to change.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.