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Examples of bad data, especially from government.
Great dataset. But why do we need to move metadata into a spreadsheet. First two sheets are pure metadata. Version metadata is in a random human readable location on bottom...
Here is an example of lying with data my students uncovered. The source of the data is the American Chemistry Council, as repeated by the EPA https://epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/plastics-material-specific-data. Is plastic use...
https://bosker.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/the-government-statistical-services-terrible-spreadsheet-advice/
@rgrp et al. Take an academic publishing organisation at random, which publishes the papers in PDF. Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals (get one of them e.g., Springer to request academic papers in...
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.alderhey.com/Library/Images/Finance/09201.jpg This hospital provided its spend data only as screenshots of spreadsheets monthly from April to September 2010. Optical Character Recognition or a LOT of typing would be required to...
title: Russian weather by radiometric analysis dataformat: IMG datapublisher: State enterprise "Central Aerological Observatory" dataurl: http://www.nowcast.ru/ , http://www.nowcast.ru/data/uvk.html author: Ivan Begtin authorurl: http://infoculture.ru What's bad? 1. Data or documents unavailable....
title: List of regional divisions of ministry of interior dataformat: XML (Microsoft Word XML) datapublisher: Ministry of Interior of Russian Federation dataurl: http://mvd.ru/opendata/od1 author: Ivan Begtin authorurl: http://infoculture.ru, http://ru.okfn.org What's...
title: Benefits for Russian taxpayers on federal, regional and municipal levels dataformat: XML (Microsoft Word XML) datapublisher: Federal Tax Service dataurl: http://nalog.ru/ru/opendata/p9/ author: Ivan Begtin authorurl: http://infoculture.ru What's bad? 1....
I published this on my blog about 6 years ago. I _think_ this was from a ****\* *******\* *\* Chemistry journal but hold fire till I check.  This was,...
