Data management: documentation and metadata

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Data management: documentation and metadata
Data management is a broad subject and when planning a study the process should be outlined at the very early
planning stages. A research is as good as the data that feeds it. The garbage-in-garbage-out idea is not foreign to
data analysis and research; data quality and relevance must be ensured at all stages of data generation, storage,
analysis and dissemination.
We are fast moving towards an era where reproducible research won’t be an option. When you share results
people would want to be able to reproduce them with minimal effort, so you have to be in a position to share
documentations such that someone else can follow and replicate your results.
Data documentation is part of the data management process. Metadata is “data about data”. It is a set of data
that describes and gives information about other data. The Universi Less