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An arbitrary data error I found is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari is shown on the year 760251. That numb
by maxlin 3mo ago
An arbitrary data error I found is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari is shown on the year 760251. That number is obviously wrong, it instead appears to be the postcode of the place.
- lortex 3mo agoWikidata is the source I used to get metadata about Wikipedia articles. Sometimes the data is automatically extracted from Wikipedia articles which introduces these errors. What's nice is that the timeline representation easily shows these outliers and will help us fix them !
- jcbe 3mo ago+1, I noticed and fixed a few erroneous dates that would have presumably been difficult to surface otherwise
- GMoromisato 3mo agoThe problem is that there's no guarantee that extraction errors will always end up as outliers. Instead, outliers are merely the errors that are easiest to find. <Insert bullet-ridden bomber image here>
- hobofan 3mo agoAlmost everything further than a few years in the future and a few predicted pangea events appear to be data errors.