February 17, 2023
#2739: Data Quality explain
![[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat] Data Quality](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/data_quality_2x.png)
[A line chart is shown with eight unevenly-spaced ticks each one with a label beneath the line. Above the middle of the line there is a dotted vertical line with a word on either side of this divider. Above the chart there is a big caption with an arrow beneath it pointing right.]
Data Quality
Lossy ┊ Lossless
[Labels to the left of the dotted line from left to right:]
Someone who once saw the data describing it at a party
Bloom filter
Hash table
JPEG, GIF MPEG
[Labels to the right of the dotted line from left to right:]
PNG, ZIP, TIFF, WAV, Raw data
Raw data + parity bits for error detection
Raw data + parity bits for error correction
Better data