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Most data scientists spend much of their time cleaning and formatting data. The rest spend most of their time complaining that there is no data available to do what they want to do.
On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” . . . I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
– Charles Babbage
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Skiena, S.S. (2017). Data Munging. In: The Data Science Design Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0_3
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