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Why is data quality harder than code quality?

What's this blog post about?

The article discusses the challenges of ensuring data quality compared to code quality, highlighting that detecting, understanding, fixing, and reducing data quality issues are harder than their counterparts in software engineering. It argues that while both involve meeting expectations, data is more complex due to its size, rapid changes, and dependencies. The article also explores the difficulty of debugging data quality issues, as well as strategies for improving data architecture to reduce such issues.

Company
Airbyte

Date published
Aug. 31, 2022

Author(s)
Ari Bajo Rouvinen

Word count
2443

Hacker News points
3

Language
English


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