Data Provenience

The user of a Dataleaf® product, especially a data mart, can see provenience information for any data element by clicking that field in the normal user interface.

Information includes:

• History (earlier changes in code values, etc.)
• Where this data element came from, and exactly how it was re-coded
• Catalogued reports (what catalogued reports contain this data element)
• Current summary statistics for the data element (average, max, min, standard deviation, frequency distribution)
• Past, present, and alternate field names

[Also see Data Quality Automation for a similar feature, that gives the user direct access to data quality violations and warnings -- both admin- and metadata-related.]

The user of a Dataleaf® data mart can view historical and distributional information for any data element.

Historical taxonomies (old sets of codes) and recoding heuristics can be viewed.