Run that lousy data through a simulation, and then publish the results as truth.
Works every time! --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All -- > > Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data? There are > increasingly sources of public data on subject matters such as weather and > (see below) flowers and birds where the quality of the data is truly awful > by ordinary standards and yet there is so much of it that it seems a crime > not to try to make use of it. So Sally writes in to say that her morning > glories are in bloom in April when what she means is her pansies. Her > neighbor gets the pansies right but screws up on the tithonia. Is there > any way to add this all up and get something? > > thoughts? > > nick > > > > > > Nicholas S. 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