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?
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