Data Guards: Challenges and Solutions for Fostering Trust in Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2024 (October 13 - 28, 2024 in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.)
From dirty data to intentional deception, there are many threats to the validity of data-driven decisions. Making use of data, especially new or unfamiliar data, therefore requires a degree of trust or verification. How is this trust established? In this paper, we present the results of a series of interviews with both producers and consumers of data artifacts (outputs of data ecosystems like spreadsheets, charts, and dashboards) aimed at understanding strategies and obstacles to building trust in data. We find a recurring need, but lack of existing standards, for data validation and verification, especially among data consumers. We therefore propose a set of data guards: methods and tools for fostering trust in data artifacts.
Tableau Author(s)
Nicole Sultanum, Dennis Bromley
Author(s)
Michael Correll