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Latest Egregious Data Errors

  • Dates. We hate dates. No one can get them right. It's almost like you need a Ph.D. in History to understand how to format a date so that someone else can understand you. And then there's people being funny... Hopefully you DIAF Strangely, even my reasonably clever series of date parsers fails to extract an actual death date for this lad.

  • Places. Places are great. We love places. They're hierarchical, they have lat/long coordinates for comparison, they're removed from dolphin. They're ... wait, they're what? Removed from Dataset Looking forwards to seeing what the geocoder makes of "Removed from dolphin, California, USA"