From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources

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Evaluating data sources

Evaluating data sources

- [Narrator] When we evaluate data sources, we want to find information that will allow us to assess the availability, usability, accuracy, and quality of the data source. This information may not always be in one place, and it may not necessarily be easy to categorize the information that we find into one of these four categories. There will be times when there's an overlap, for instance, the accuracy or lack thereof can of course influence the usability of a file. And then there will be other times where it fits nicely into one of these buckets. While this framework is helpful for conceptualizing the bigger picture, the bigger problem that we are dealing with when we look at data, in reality, of course, we don't think about problems in this manner. We don't get it just as a quality issue. We are usually looking at more intricate details about our situation. When we work with data, we often have questions associated…

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