Data clean-up and management, a practical guide for librarians, Margaret Hogarth with contributions from Kenneth Furuta
Type
Label
Data clean-up and management, a practical guide for librarians, Margaret Hogarth with contributions from Kenneth Furuta
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-531) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Data clean-up and management
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Oclc number
1865578729
Responsibility statement
Margaret Hogarth with contributions from Kenneth Furuta
Series statement
Chandos information professional series
Sub title
a practical guide for librarians
Summary
Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems. Data Clean-up and Management addresses these, and provides methods to clean up frequently-occurring data problems using readily-available applications. The authors highlight the importance and methods of data analysis and presentation, and offer guidelines and recommendations for a data quality policy. The book gives step-by-step how-to directions for common dirty data issues. Focused towards libraries and practicing librariansDeals with practical, real-life issues and addresses common problems that all libraries faceOffers cradle-to-grave treatment for preparing and using data, including download, clean-up, management, analysis and presentation
Table Of Contents
Introduction (why this book is needed) -- Commonalities -- Defining data -- Types of data issues -- Microsoft Excel techniques -- Data clean-up in Excel -- Excel: combining data -- Additional tools -- Access techniques -- Access forms -- Access reports -- Access queries -- Data clean-up in Access -- Access -- combining data -- Strategies for missing data -- Qualitative data -- ROI -- Data collection and analysis -- Data quality policy -- Next steps