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description: "Discussion on \"“Latest” has three dates in global data (and dashboards should show them)\". When a country dashboard says latest, it is easy to read that as current. In a global data set, those words can mean different things.\nA value usually needs at least three dates to be understood:\n1. T"
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When a country dashboard says latest, it is easy to read that as current. In a global data set, those words can mean different things. A value usually needs at least three dates to be understood: 1. T

Sep 24 · 3 min read · buildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.dev  
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