Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
Datainspec: a release gate for changing datasets
Datainspec compares a new data delivery with an approved version, identifies changes and affected rows, and returns a verdict for a pipeline.
- For
- Teams reviewing recurring data deliveries
- Worth noticing
- Its demo uses a synthetic retailer with nine stores and a web shop, with five faults deliberately planted in the October file.
Field notes
The page walks through a six-step path—profile, approve, compare, investigate, decide, audit—using an orders dataset labeled synthetic. Findings are paired with affected rows, while approvals, overrides, blocks, and rollbacks are described as entries in an exportable audit log; the site also says shared reports omit data values. A Windows app is presented through screenshots, and the page reports a large-file example of 30 million rows per side taking about 21 minutes on a laptop.
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