From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources

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Potential challenges

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From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources

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Potential challenges

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- [Instructor] The COVID-19 data sources had several commonalities. For one, the information provided about the data and where the data came from was omitted. There were many circular references and ambiguous descriptions. Almost no information is given about the data collection process, such as when the data was collected, who collected it, how it was collected and all this is very important for being able to understand if there's a bias in the data. There's also very little information about the pre-processing methodology. And if anything was done after the data was collected to be able to use this information. Information about the data was also very difficult to find on the website. The differences between the COVID-19 data sources were in the availability and usage, as well as the amount of time or the amount of data that could be accessed by the user. The availability of the data differed based on the…

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