I've also worked as a data scientist for a few years and have never heard or used the word "provenance" in a DS context. Some people used it in the oil & gas in

I've also worked as a data scientist for a few years and have never heard or used the word "provenance" in a DS context. Some people used it in the oil & gas industry when talking about where reservoir sands came from, but that usually garnered a eye-roll and mental translation to more everyday language.