[School-of-data] Help Defining Dataset Definition and Quality Parameters

[Michael Bauer]

Tom,

You're right there. In the end the decision is whether the data is fit for
what you want to do. Also asked this question on our beta platform:

http://ask.schoolofdata.org/question/1/how-to-measure-the-quality-of-data-in-a-dataportal/

Michael

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:00:27AM -0400, Tom Morris wrote:
> I don't think you can measure quality in the abstract without knowing what
> you want to use the data for.  "Fitness for purpose" is one of the main
> ways to measure quality, so if you don't have a goal in mind any measure of
> "quality" is going to be rather arbitrary.  As an example, in some use
> cases misspellings might not hinder your use of the data at all as long as
> all the numbers were accurate while in others accurate spellings are
> critical for matching.
> 
> Have you asked the users (and potential users) of the data what quality
> metrics are important to them?  They're the ones who count.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Matan Rotman <matan.rotman at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > My name is Matan Rotman, and I'm a student at Hebrew University majoring
> > Political Science. As a part of my studying, I'm writing a paper that tries
> > to understand whether the Israel open data program is efficient
> > (Collaberative-wise), and if not, why not (hence, why wouldn't
> > administrative dept. won't cooperate with the program). The first thing I
> > need to do for that, though, is to understand if the datasets that are on
> > the website are of quality or not. As i'm not a technical guy, I could use
> > some help understanding what would be considered as the definition of a
> > dataset (hopefully, as particular as possible), and more important, I could
> > really use for some help with defining quality parameters so I could
> > measure the quality of the different files and sets uploaded.
> >
> > The website is at http://data.gov.il (all in Hebrew though), and I'd love
> > any help on the subject possible
> >
> > P.S
> > I hope this is the right place to ask, and I'm going to ask also at Open
> > government mailing list, so I apologize if you get my message twice.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Matan
> >
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