Art Institute Metadata

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Parse the "Artist Info.Years Living" field to extract out a birth year, death year, and age.

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Also, the "Description.Classification" field has some stray whitespace (needs .strip). Probably true for other fields as well.

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And make a stab at parsing the "Description.Dated" field.

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Wait, there are no numbers at all in this dataset. That's no good.

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This dataset is a mess. It's kind of redundant next to Tate, so I'm making the difficult executive decision to retire it for now. Someone will need to go in here and really tackle the string processing involved. There's some order and consistency here, and it could be a half-decent dataset. But it's not there right now.