Preparing Public Use Data Files
Felicity Leclere · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2007
Cleaning and preparing data files for public release are tasks that many researchers and survey professionals feel are unnecessary in the era of computer assisted and web based interviewing.nbsp;nbsp; The addition of automation, in principle, should have resulted in a dataset that is ready immediately upon data collection.nbsp; In practice, however, the automation necessary to collect data does not always produce data files that are in fact designed to be used by the uninitiated (ergo "public") user.nbsp; In this part of the session, I will discuss how to approach data set cleaning and documentation from a user's perspective.