Dirty Data Again

It happened again.  I was working on a project for which I needed a quick list of all of the 50 states and their abbreviations.  I probably had it somewhere— I’m sure I’ve needed this information before—but I was too lazy to look for it.  If I was in 7^th grade, I could probably have just typed them in order from memory.  But I’m not and I can’t.  So I did what any half-way smart person would do.  I googled “State Abbreviations”.  The result returned a lot of sites, as you’d expect.  I decided on using the one for our good old United States Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbr_state.txt. Read more of this post