Virginia Lacefield
Research Data Analyst,
University of Kentucky
Maintaining Your Sanity and Your Survey Data: How to Build Clean and Functional Longitudinal Datasets
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | 10:15AM–11:00AM MT | Board 309, Poster Area, Exhibit Hall B-E
Session Type:
Poster Session
Delivery Format:
Poster Session
Building clean and functional longitudinal datasets from messy student survey data can seems like a daunting and time-consuming challenge, but there are ways to make it easier! In this demo, you?ll learn tips and tricks for generating a spotless dataset by normalizing data at the point of collection, minimizing duplication when collecting multiple submissions per respondent, eliminating unwanted outliers, and transforming wide datasets to long formats for easier visualization and reporting.