Data engineering·Quality, tests and knowing it is wrong
some tables are marked as certified with tests and an owner, and the rest are clearly labelled as somebody's experiment.
Trust threshold
Also calledconfidence tier, certified dataset
An explicit statement of how much a given dataset can be relied on, published alongside it. It exists because a warehouse always contains a mixture of production models and half-finished exploration, and an analyst cannot tell them apart by looking. Tiering is cheaper than raising everything to production standard and more honest than pretending the difference is not there.