This draft of open data CSV standards has been collated and reviewed by the open data cross-system task and finish group, an informal partnership of national bodies in health and care that produce open data and statistics. We are publishing on GitHub to gather feedback and any suggested alterations and additions.
Clare and I were having a discussion and think that the description is still open to interpretation. Adding some example data would remove the ambiguity. Do we have an example to hand?
Hi there,
Clare and I were having a discussion and think that the description is still open to interpretation. Adding some example data would remove the ambiguity. Do we have an example to hand?
I interpret the guidance to recommend 'tidy data' format. For example, see here: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/tidy-data.html
This is the same approach recommended by the DKAN open data platform as well as the NHS-R blog and the UK data science blog.