Making Data Useful
How Good Data Goes Bad
The data quality crisis no one is talking about
3 min readSep 26, 2023
A rule of thumb to save you tears in the long run is to assume every dataset is more like a hoarder’s storage locker than a well-curated museum until proven otherwise.
When in doubt, assume your data’s a junkyard.
But even if you’re not dealing with a dataset that’s a hoardsplosion of we-may-as-wells, there are two ways that fit-for-purpose data turns into garbage:
