A data science blog by Caitlin Hudon
Focusing on these points has led to my continuous adoption of a query library -- a git repository for saving and sharing commonly (and uncommonly) used queries, all while tracking any changes made to these queries over time.
The scariest ghost stories I know take place when the history of data -- how it’s collected, how it’s used, and what it’s meant to represent -- becomes an oral history, passed down as campfire stories from one generation of analysts to another like a spooky game of telephone. These stories include eerie phrases like… Continue reading Field Notes: Building Data Dictionaries
Not all of the data was equally relevant to the questions we ask of it, not all of the data is trustworthy, and not all analyses are neatly reproducible.
