Data quality · The causes · Element

The pattern

Whether the error is systematic or random.

The part

What it is

Systematic errors point in one direction — a field always defaulting, a category always chosen. Those are fixable.

Random errors are noise and are reduced by removing the opportunity rather than by trying harder.

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.