From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources

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Key takeaways

Key takeaways

From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources

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Key takeaways

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- [Narrator] Now that you've seen the COVID-19 data sources that are available and all the issues and limitations that can also arise, one of the key takeaways from having looked at the COVID-19 data sets, is that we need to find information about the data sources prior to investing or committing to one particular solution or data source. This is going to be important to be able to minimize the amount of effort that is required in the long run, and evaluating the quality and accuracy of data source cannot be done without processing the data. In the case of Johns Hopkins, it was easy to miss that the column headings were not consistent or an order. Of course, this was a huge problem in terms of how the data was aggregated. Without taking that into account, your data source could end up being much more problematic. You should also consider any information that may be missing and identify gaps and potential secondary sources…

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