Week 7: Data Joins &Transformations
📖 Reading
For Class:
Context:
Note: I assign one or two chapters from Data Feminism in Stat 850 because the authors made me think differently about data. I don’t necessarily agree with everything they say, and I certainly don’t expect you to agree with them either - I want you to stretch your brains and consider things from a different perspective.
Think about:
- Do you agree/disagree with the assertion that the context of the data matters?
- How does maintaining good data documentation contribute to data context? What problems does it not solve?
- Do you prefer working with raw data? cooked data? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?