> The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the present situation?

Plug: I work at a company (https://www.pachyderm.com) whose product is designed precisely to track data provenance across pipelines and through a company's larger data-processing operation for this reason