Data engineering·Governance, privacy and meaning
two dashboards show different revenue because one includes refunds and neither of them says so anywhere.
Metric definition
Also calledmetric spec, measure definition
The precise, written statement of how a business measure is computed, including what is excluded. Most metric disagreements are not disputes about a number but discoveries that two people were computing different things, and the definition is what makes that discoverable in seconds. It has to live where it is executed rather than in a wiki, otherwise the wiki becomes the aspirational version.