Column description suggestions
When you onboard a dataset or edit column metadata, Liberator can suggest descriptions already in use on similar columns in your environment, ranked by how often each description appears. Accept a suggestion as-is, edit it, or write your own. This keeps documentation consistent across related datasets and speeds up onboarding for common fields (timestamps, tickers, prices, identifiers).Admin privileges or higher are required. Suggestions improve as more datasets with descriptions exist in your environment.
Use suggested descriptions
Review suggestions
For each column, Liberator shows likely description matches ordered by frequency of use.
Accept, edit, or override
Click a suggestion to apply it, edit the text in place, or type a new description manually.
Tips
- Use consistent terminology (for example, always “Trade execution timestamp (UTC)”) so rankings stay useful.
- Edit close matches instead of creating near-duplicates that compete in frequency ranking.
- Treat low-frequency suggestions cautiously — they may not generalize.
FAQ
No suggestion for a column?The field is blank until you enter one manually. It will be available for future datasets with similarly named columns. Can I ignore suggestions?
Yes. Suggestions are advisory only. Do suggestions cross public and private datasets?
Yes. Descriptions are metadata drawn from all datasets in your environment, not from underlying row data.