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Opinion
Benedict Evans says Statista scrapes data incorrectly without context or sourcing
“There's this website called Statista, which scrapes other people's websites, copies the numbers in, copies them in wrong without telling you when they were calculated or what you're actually, what's being defined or who did them.”
Benedict Evans Jan 31, 2021 ▶ 9:24 Telling stories with charts
Opinion
Evans: Statista is search spam that Google should remove from its index
“The first link, which was Statista, which is spam that Google should take out of the index, and Statista had got a number that was just wrong, and it wasn't like, I disagree with that number, it's like, no, there are not eight billion people on Earth with a mo…”
Benedict Evans Jan 30, 2023 ▶ 15:15 Generative AI
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