A dashboard is a single-screen visual display of the key metrics needed to monitor a process or goal, combining charts, numbers and…
A data catalog is a searchable inventory of an organization's data assets and their metadata, supporting discovery, ownership, lineage and governance.
Data classification in data governance assigns data to sensitivity categories, such as public or restricted, that determine how it is protected and…
Data cleaning is the process of detecting and correcting errors, inconsistencies and gaps in a dataset so that analysis and models produce…
A data dictionary documents every data element in a system, with its name, type, allowed values, meaning and owner, so data is…
A data lake is a central repository that stores raw structured and unstructured data at scale in open formats, applying schema only…
Data lineage traces where data comes from, how it is transformed and where it flows, so teams can trust, debug and govern…
Data ownership in data governance assigns a named business role accountability for a data asset, its quality, access rules and fitness for…
A data pipeline is an automated sequence of steps that moves data from sources, transforms it and delivers it reliably to storage…
Data quality is the degree to which data is accurate, complete, consistent, timely and valid enough to serve its intended use reliably.
Data retention in data governance defines how long each category of data is kept, why it is kept, and how it is…
A data steward is the person accountable for the day-to-day quality, meaning and correct use of a defined set of data under…
Data transformation converts data from its source structure, format or values into the shape a target system or analysis requires, in batch…
Data visualization encodes data values as position, length, color and shape so that patterns, comparisons and outliers can be seen and understood…
A data warehouse is a central, query-optimized store of cleaned and integrated historical data built for reporting and analytics across an organization.
A dataset is a defined, bounded collection of related data records with a shared structure and meaning, prepared for analysis, processing or…
Deduplication in data processing identifies and removes or merges records that describe the same entity or event, so each appears only once.
Descriptive analytics summarizes historical data into counts, totals, rates and trends that show what happened in a business or process over a…
Diagnostic analytics is the stage of data analytics that explains why a metric changed, using drill-down, segmentation and correlation analysis.