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 # Usage and data formats
 
-We use the data as training data for our [vessel scoring library](https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/vessel-scoring), and you might find it usefull to check out that code to get started with the dataset.
+We use the data as training data for our [vessel scoring library](https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/vessel-scoring), and you might find it useful to check out that code to get started with the dataset.
 
 The data is stored in [numpy format](http://www.numpy.org/). We recommend exploring the data using the jupyter/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn/tensorflow stack.