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Dubrow, Joshua K. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
The COVID 19 pandemic illuminates the role data has in public policy-making, i.e. datafication of society, and the importance of exploring the local sources of data to reveal errors in what has assuredly been from the beginning an undercount of cases and deaths. I note four interrelated error sources. The first two are common to any quantitative…
Descriptors: Data Use, COVID-19, Pandemics, Data Collection
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Snyder, Johnny – Information Systems Education Journal, 2019
Quantitative decision making (management science, business statistics) textbooks rarely address data cleansing issues, rather, these textbooks come with neat, clean, well-formatted data sets for the student to perform analysis on. However, with a majority of the data analyst's time spent on gathering, cleaning, and pre-conditioning data, students…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Error Patterns, Data Collection, Spreadsheets