How Fresh Are Your Data Sources?

Test the freshness of your tables and set up monitoring through Slack

Madison Schott
Towards Data Science
6 min readJun 7, 2022

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The freshness of your data is an important aspect of data quality. If data isn’t up-to-date, then it is stale. If your business thinks it's drawing insights from the most recent data, but really it's looking at data that’s a month old, there’s going to be problems.

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