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Which data quality failure would you catch first?

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Describe a dataset or pipeline you care about. Which failure would cause the most harm: missing values, duplicates, stale data, schema drift, or something else? Share the first rule or signal you would put in place.

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Prioritise the failure that could silently produce a believable but wrong result. Begin with freshness, row-volume bounds, required identifiers, uniqueness, and valid domain values. Give every rule an owner, a severity, and a clear response. A small set of actionable checks is more valuable than many alerts nobody trusts.

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