In her work as a Senior Data Engineer for VMG, the quality of the data being used is always top of mind for Jennifer Akers. That’s because Akers wants the end users — VMG members — to be able to make the best decisions possible from the work she does. “Think about it like this,” she says, “if you put the wrong numbers into a calculator, the math will be wrong, and you will get the wrong answer.” Indeed, most systems aren’t smart enough to fix bad inputs; the systems just process whatever they...