Module 2
The case table: what a row is, how to code outcomes, and how to clean what you collect
Every analysis in this course starts with a table in which each row is a case. The table looks like the simplest part of the work, and it decides everything that follows. If one row can be a case, a claim or a party, every count is ambiguous. If ‘won’ means one thing in January and another in March, every rate is unreliable. If duplicates and open cases are left in, every duration is wrong. The skill of the analyst is largely the skill of building and cleaning this table, and of writing down every decision so that the result can be checked. This module teaches how to define the row, the fields and the outcome codes, how to find the faults that real case data always has and how to document the work. The Case Table Audit in the labs finds the common faults in an invented table of ten cases.
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