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Data and measurement
From the course: Data Curation Foundations
Data and measurement
- [Instructor] Let's get philosophical for a moment, and ponder the concepts of data and measurement, and how they are related. Let's think of a concrete example. Let's say we have medical record data, which includes the variables on the slide. Maybe we are studying tobacco-use and heart disease. So we are happy to see that both blood pressure and tobacco-use measurements are available. Also, height and weight are helpful to have, because we can tell if the patient is overweight. But actually, it would be naive to think that blood pressure and weight data in a medical record were equally as valid and accurate as tobacco-use data. The first three variables on the slide were probably measured at the doctor's office, by a trained clinician, while the last three were measured by a self-report, like the clinician asked the patient, or they weren't even measured at all. Just because the variables might be blank in the data…
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What is data curation?5m 14s
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Curation as a management function5m 26s
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Data and measurement5m 49s
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Overview of back-end curation6m 12s
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Overview of front-end curation5m 16s
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Overview of curation for surveys5m 13s
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Flow diagram overview6m 3s
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Other helpful curation files6m 8s
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