how do you use the word “meta”. I hear it all the time and no one that I ask knows what it means.
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In meta data, the meta is information about the data contained inside. Eg. You ran a forecast model and produced a data set in the end, output. You might find you’ll run the model many times, and each time the output would be different. It would make sense to hold onto each output individually, but if you want to sort out amongst the outputs themselves, you can store more information about the model run, date, variable changes, etc as meta on top of each output. Then you can not only search the data, but also the meta.
Silly scenario: Didn’t get the result you were looking for in any output? Oh, I forgot to ever change ‘that’ bit, which you could find in the meta.
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