Might just be the parts I looked at, but some of the data is bad. e.g. Repeated ...

cwal37 · on Aug 19, 2014

From the Article[1]: "The Times is now posting the raw data to GitHub here. With this data, which is being posted as it was received,"

The data they got was bad in general. Their original article[2] also discusses the lack of information out there.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/upshot/data-on-transfer-of...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-polic...

crazypyro · on Aug 19, 2014

Ah, I didn't really read the articles, just dove straight into a python interpreter to start checking out the data. I figured it wasn't the Times' fault, but just a warning.