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Garbage In Garbage Out: Is your data worth the paper it is not written on
November 7, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
In our data-driven world, with decisions being increasingly based on data, their quality is absolutely key. However, while significant resources are invested developing sophisticated AI algorithms, data quality is often neglected. For example, in the research community, there are many articles and publications that detail the statistical methodology, but rarely does one find details of any data checks. Why is this? Is data checking assumed to be “taken as read”, or is it just thought of as too boring and not worth a mention? The aim of this talk is to show how methods for checking data quality can be fun and just as interesting as the analysis itself, and to advocate how important this is.