Why Cleaning Public Data Matters: 57.8% of Toronto Cost Fields Aren't Numeric
RichardsonDx · x · 2026-10-09
Toronto publishes hundreds of datasets, but hand-entered street names, 57.8% non-numeric cost fields, and 311 codes retired in 2019 force every analyst to redo the same cleaning by hand. The author does it once and open-sources it.
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