Sexless and beautiful data: from quantity to quality

Actuarial science has received an enormous influence from statistics since the early times. However, in the recent decades, the interplay between those two disciplines is somehow different compared to the past, with more emphasis on large-scale data analysis and prediction modelling based on customer historical records. In this respect, very little seems to have been said about the quality of data that are being stored in insurance companies' databases, even though data are the fuel for actuarial modelling.