From the course: Data Curation Foundations
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Cheat sheets and diagrams
- [Instructor] The last set of text-based curation files we are going to cover are cheat sheets and diagrams. So, let's say you are in charge of a city and one of the residents shows you that there is a hole in the road that someone could just fall into. You see the cover but you and the resident find it too heavy to move the cover to cover the hole. So, what should you do? Did you say nothing? Let someone fall in? No, of course not, that would be unethical. Instead, we can put up warning cones or alarms. We might even put up signs instructing people to go around the hole. You probably guessed that the hole in the road is a metaphor for holes in your database. By holes in your database, I mean common mistakes that everyone seems to make with that dataset. I remember at the Army we had really nice occupational codes in a lot of fields. They were so clear, like AB01, but the problem is how to decode these codes had…
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