Data Quality Quotes

“Completeness of crucial information is extremely important, as missing data is not only a cost issue but is also a massive lost opportunity issue...”
― Rupa Mahanti, Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance

“The degree of data quality excellence that should be attained and sustained is driven by the criticality of the data, the business need and the cost and time to achieve the defined degree of data quality.”
― Rupa Mahanti, in Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance

“You do not need to have zero percent data issues... In other words, you do not need 100% data quality.”
― Rupa Mahanti, in Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance

“Each data quality dimension captures a particular measurable aspect of data quality. In other words, the dimensions represent the views, benchmarks, or measures for data quality issues that can be understood, analysed, and resolved or minimized eventually.”
― Rupa Mahanti, Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance

“Your data stories are as good as your data. With bad data you will end up narrating a fishy story.”
― Rupa Mahanti, Data Humour

“If your data lake is not clean, it is a data swamp, and you cannot swim in a data swamp, can you?”
― Rupa Mahanti, Data Humour

“As AI reshapes financial planning in 2025, FP&A teams gain the power of real-time forecasts but face the problems of data quality gaps. It's important to blend human oversight with automated insights to deliver decisions that adapt well to market shifts.”
― Jason Hishmeh, The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies