[okfn-labs] Bad Data: real-world examples of how not to do data

Fri Nov 22 14:14:25 UTC 2013

Great examples!

Love to hear from others if they have any "chestnuts" they've come across!

Rufus

On 22 November 2013 14:09, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rufus!
>
> I have great example of official bad data from Russia.
>
> List of regional offices of Ministry of Interior -
> http://mvd.ru/opendata/od1 direct download -
> http://mvd.ru/upload/site1/opendata/od1.xml
>
> This XML file is MS Word XML (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats) and it's not
> even close to be good data. It's just XML formatted bad data but XML format
> is not more machine-readable than common .DOC file.
>
> We discovered at least two government bodies doing that for now.
>
> Best Regards,
>    Ivan
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> 2013/11/22 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I wanted to flag a new mini-project:
>>
>> http://okfnlabs.org/bad-data/
>>
>> The idea of "Bad Data" is to provide real-world examples of how *not* to
>> publish data. It showcases the poorly structured, the mis-formatted, and
>> the just plain ugly.
>>
>> This is less about being critical and more about educating - by providing
>> examples of how not to do something we can help show how to do it right.
>>
>> Here are a couple of the examples already up there:
>>
>>    - A poorly structured CSV on tube usage from London Datastore<http://okfnlabs.org/bad-data/ex/tfl-passenger-numbers/>
>>    - An ASCII spreadsheet (with merge cells!) from US Bureau of Labor
>>    Statistics <http://okfnlabs.org/bad-data/ex/bls-us-employment/>
>>
>> *New examples are very welcome*, instructions on how to submit them
>> here: http://okfnlabs.org/bad-data/add/
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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