Data lineage

How it is used

Used by data engineers and data governance teams, and often shown as a graph in tools such as dbt or data catalogs. You trace or document lineage, for example to see which dashboards will break if a source table changes.

Example sentences

1. The data lineage graph shows that six dashboards depend on this table.

2. Without data lineage, it took us two days to find where the wrong number came from.

Common collocations

• trace data lineage
• lineage graph
• column-level lineage
• document lineage

Related terms

• data pipelineA series of automated steps that moves data from its sources, transforms it and delivers it to a destination such as a warehouse, dashboard or model.
• data dictionaryA document or table that describes every field in a dataset: its name, meaning, data type, allowed values, source and owner.
• ETLShort for extract, transform, load: the process of taking data out of source systems, cleaning and reshaping it, and loading it into a warehouse.
• data qualityHow accurate, complete, consistent and up to date data is, and therefore how far it can be trusted when people make decisions.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• data lineage · Data Science & Analytics

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• model
• dataset
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting