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The Bed of Procrustes

Open harrisj opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

This is the classic case where there might not be something wrong within the data but the number of rows suggests very strongly that the data was truncated by Excel and is thus incomplete.

harrisj avatar Oct 26 '14 17:10 harrisj

Turn this into a general smell about how data is truncated in various ways beyond just the Excel problem. A round number of rows is also suspect

harrisj avatar Nov 13 '14 02:11 harrisj

Initial draft added in 4e1f7e4b55785501b3cb61e0751fa2f1d1a05b1c

harrisj avatar Nov 21 '14 20:11 harrisj