Use Case: Aggravation

Working on a project today, I came across the type of headache that I want the Data Commons to solve.

• Two different ways of writing the company name
• Two different ways of writing the same address, and a third address of unknown reliability
• A misspelling of the town name
• The perennial East Coast problem of having to tell Excel that zip codes starting in "zero" need to be treated as text
• No entries in the third column, "Title" -- and the probability that any listed titles could already be out of date
  
• The sense of futility that fixing these problems once will not mean they are fixed forever

It's comforting, in a way, to know that at least I need the Data Commons to exist to make my life easier.