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The Bed of Procrustes #8

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harrisj opened this issue Oct 26, 2014 · 2 comments
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The Bed of Procrustes #8

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harrisj commented Oct 26, 2014

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.
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harrisj commented Nov 13, 2014

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

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@harrisj harrisj changed the title 65,536 Rows of data The Bed of Procrustes Nov 13, 2014
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harrisj commented Nov 21, 2014

Initial draft added in 4e1f7e4

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