In May, I did my own amateur analysis of Kepler data that was supplied on Kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries. This was a table of all confirmed "Kepler planets" to date (April 1, 2015). This table had some unbelievably high masses/densities listed in the first column after the planet designation (ie: planets of Kepler 23,24,25,27,28,32,39,48,52,54,57,58,59,60 and others). I didn't take these seriously, but would like to know if there was a "units" error or something I am missing. To give you an idea, Kepler 23b is given a radius of 1.9 R(Earth) and a mass of 254.3 M(Earth) and that's nothing compared to some others. I checked just now and the data is the same.
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