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Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists
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Codebooks as social science metadata #66

Closed enfascination closed 5 years ago

enfascination commented 6 years ago

Just to help bridge the curriculum to social sciences, its worth mentioning familiar forms of metadata in the social sciences. Survey researchers often write codebooks that explain their questions. Still, a codebook does not have other essential metadata info, like when/where a dataset was collected from.

chris-prener commented 6 years ago

thanks for the suggestion @enfascination - what are your thoughts @ErinBecker ?

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

This sounds like a good suggestion and is in line with the Curriculum Advisors suggested action items for this lesson before it's next publication in December.

chris-prener commented 5 years ago

Update: addressed; will be included in next PR and I'll close after the PR is accepted