Data management, cleaning, and/or wrangling is an extremely important part of data analysis. If fact, you need to do data management procedures before you conduct any analyses and will, actually, spend most of your time doing data cleaning.
It is also important to think about using standard procedures and making sure your data management and cleaning is standardized and that we have consistent processes.
What is data management - and why do you need it in interdisciplinary life sciences? (4:46)
The part of the Data Science Process sitting in between data acquisition and exploratory data analysis (EDA) is one of the core skills a data scientist must have. It includes a set of tasks you have to perform in order to understand your data and prep it for machine learning. The story has been told many times, that the data wrangling process can take up a sizable percentage of the time spent on the project by the data scientist, often reported as high as 75%.