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# What is data debt?

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When all the short-term data decisions you’re currently making or you’ve made in the past start making your present-day data much harder to understand and leverage, it may be time to rethink whether **data debt** is threatening to undermine all the trust you’ve put in the data-driven decisions that guide your business.

Often misunderstood as another form of technical debt, [**data debt**](/blog/the-true-costs-of-data-debt) is, in fact, a silent menace that plagues data-driven organizations, costing them millions of dollars and time. The good news is that, ** the sooner an organization takes control of data quality, the better equipped it will be to reduce or even avoid data debt**.

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Fortunately, the antidote to control or even avoid data debt lies in clean analytics tracking. Learn more about how to [**reduce and avoid data debt**](/faqs/how-to-reduce-and-avoid-data-debt) in this blog post.

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