{"id":41725,"date":"2026-07-10T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/working-with-public-scraped-datasets-is-actually-soul-crushing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:28:09","slug":"working-with-public-scraped-datasets-is-actually-soul-crushing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/working-with-public-scraped-datasets-is-actually-soul-crushing\/","title":{"rendered":"Working With Public Scraped Datasets Is Actually Soul Crushing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Im trying to put together a clean corpus for an ai reasoning test right now (mostly to distract myself from how badly im doing at my driving school lessons this week tbh) and I downloaded this massive &#8220;pre-cleaned&#8221; open-source corporate registry dataset <\/p>\n<p>The data hygiene is just offensively bad. half the rows are misaligned and the contact columns are filled with literal regex nightmares and placeholder junk. I ended up having to pipe the whole thing through mail tester just to strip out the dead syntax and fake emails so my script wouldn&#8217;t crash every five seconds <\/p>\n<p>why do people upload these 10GB csv files to github without doing even basic sanitization first? my laptop fan is literally screaming right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/ThatRoofer\"> \/u\/ThatRoofer <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1usof50\/working_with_public_scraped_datasets_is_actually\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1usof50\/working_with_public_scraped_datasets_is_actually\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41725 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41725' data-nonce='9de69db8d5' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41725 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41725 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Im trying to put together a clean corpus for an ai reasoning test right now (mostly to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}