ropensci / unconf16

rOpenSci's San Francisco hackathon/unconf 2016
http://unconf16.ropensci.org
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developing heuristics for parsing terrible data #16

Closed maelle closed 8 years ago

maelle commented 8 years ago

Exemple of terrible website with data http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/database/indiafatalities.htm

jennybc commented 8 years ago

I comfort myself with snarky bingo cards in these situations.

https://github.com/jennybc/bingo#open-and-bad-data-examples

maelle commented 8 years ago

Well, bingo cards would be a good way to list common issues and ideas for tackling these issues. :smiley:

maelle commented 8 years ago

Like, how could one transform star information into a comment column. (your bingo card is so cool!)