Silver Linings: How a Data Harmonisation Mishap Turned into a PhD Thesis
Submission Notes
Title Ideas:
- The story of the data mishap that gave birth to my PhD.
- How losing and finding data …
- A ‘simple data integration’ complex mishaps…
- Building a simple tool to avoid a data mishap turned into a whole chapter of my PhD
TAKEAWAY: The right abstraction can help us avoid mistakes
Pitch:
How a “straight-forward” data harmonisation task turned into a month of detective work to figure out why my data didn’t match reference data prepared and published by other researchers, which let me to try and build a “simple” tool for implementing and validating many-to-many categorical recoding (not just one-to-one)… which has turned into a whole chapter in my thesis on mathematical abstractions of harmonisation