A city budget office cannot rerun last year's cost-driver notebook for an audit because library versions and input parameters were never recorded. What practice should the information manager require next?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of an analysis notebook like a recipe—if you never wrote the oven temperature or which flour bag you used, nobody can bake the same cake for the auditors. Pinning data versions, libraries, and parameters is how you make the work reproducible. Without that, last year's 'insight' is just a one-time performance.
Full Explanation
Reproducible analytic practice records the inputs, code/library versions, and parameters needed to recreate results under audit scrutiny. Civic analyses often face later review, so notebooks that omit pinning fail fitness for governance use. Mandating pinned versions and parameters closes that gap without discarding useful exploratory work.