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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook. By Kristoffer Bjärkefur, Luíza Cardoso de Andrade, Benjamin Daniels, and Maria Jones
https://worldbank.github.io/dime-data-handbook/
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Final review - 'original' data instead of 'primary' data #387

Closed mariaruth closed 4 years ago

mariaruth commented 4 years ago

@bbdaniels suggested 'original data' in chapter 1 edits, i think this is the right wording to go with throughout the book (rather than 'primary' or 'raw'). it's inclusive of all data types, and gives the right emphasis on data that's being used for the first time for the purpose at hand.

kbjarkefur commented 4 years ago

I agree with the overall point.

However, don't we sometimes make point specific to primary data where we should use that word specifically? This does not contradict your point, just saying it has to be done more intelligently than a replace all.

Second however. I think 'orginal data' can replace both 'primary data' and 'raw data', but maybe not both at the same time, as I think there is an important difference between 'primary' and 'raw'. Primary is a type of data, and raw describes a function a data set has in a specific project.

luizaandrade commented 4 years ago

done in 8c85c31

luizaandrade commented 4 years ago

duplicates with #415, closing #415