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Unify date name jargon #111

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swo opened this issue Jan 28, 2025 · 1 comment

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swo commented Jan 28, 2025

Cf. #105 for the start of a conversation about the terminology for different kinds of dates. We might want to revisit this.

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swo commented Jan 29, 2025

This should be:

Event date: day the thing of interest happened (e.g., end of the week in question, for NIS data)
Report date: for retrospective forecasting, assume this is the same as the event date
As-of date: this is less ambiguous than "forecast date", which sounds like the...
Forecast run date: when the forecast was actually run (which for retrospective forecasting is usually much later than the as-of date)

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