Data Quality Is Not as Sexy As Data Science – SeattleDataGuy – Medium

If you have worked with financial or accounting data, then you know that a $10 discrepancy today can become a $100,000 tomorrow. An error in a data storage system or business intelligence report might seem small at first. It can be tempting for analysts to ignore it, or fudge the numbers for the month. Maybe they will tell themselves "I will fix it later". If you have worked with financial or accounting data, then you know that a $10 discrepancy today can become a $100,000 tomorrow.