Today I've been sent what looks like real data collected by real doctors, and I say that because it looks very much like a keyboard-happy 4 year old has gone wild at a paper spreadsheet with his crayons and glue and someone uploaded that onto Excel
If you don't have to spend at least 30 minutes cleaning data before you can use it, was it really collected at all?
Note: I absolutely love doctors, and this is not at all a dig. The key is to make sure you've got a data management person on the team so that they can audit this stuff BEFORE it gets to the analysis stage!
Doctors are way too busy to do the endless, tedious, time-consuming job of managing data quality. They save lives and shit, I just clean spreadsheets
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