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Building a brief for a data project

Building a brief for a data project

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Building a brief for a data project

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- [Robin] A brief is a summary document, and when I refer to a data brief, it's just a summary document about the data project. Whenever our team delivers data sets to others for them to further analyze and research, we always follow up with two items, field definitions, which I cover how to create a simple README in my Learning Data Analytics course in the library. And a brief. I think it's important that you understand that this is a simple brief. It's not the reporting package. It's not the end all be all of all the documentation. It's just some basic information that others can refer to to gain a quick understanding about the data set and the basic rules that have been applied. It can cover things like the summary of the data project, actual data sets being made available and the formats of these data, where the data is sourced from. It can also include some basic data points, definitions about the data, and any…

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