From the course: Data Curation Foundations
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Back-end curation
- [Instructor] Okay, this chapter is all review. If you have superhuman powers and were able to keep everything I just went over straight in your mind, you can skip this chapter. But, if you are a normal person, stick with me, and let's sort through what we just learned. And we'll start with back-end curation. So first, I defined what I meant by back-end and front-end. And the back-end is basically the data part of the system. So the main thing we went over first was how to make the data dictionary. We started with how to document the main tables in the data dictionary. Then I showed you how to document the picklists. Remember, I freaked out over not only documenting what the categorical variables mean, like if the variable is hospital type, what does hospital type mean? But you also have to document each level of the categorical variable. So in other words, you have to define each level of hospital type allowed in the…
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