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

Andy Lulham a.lulham at gmail.com
Fri Nov 22 14:53:34 UTC 2013


Excellent!

This is really useful for working out / testing new operators in Data
Pipes (http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/).

Thanks – keep the data fails coming!

Andy
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Andy Lulham (@andylolz)


On 22 November 2013 13:57, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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
> An ASCII spreadsheet (with merge cells!) from US Bureau of Labor Statistics
>
> New examples are very welcome, instructions on how to submit them here:
> http://okfnlabs.org/bad-data/add/
>
> Rufus
>
>
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