Good afternoon,
I am thinking about how I can present the data cleaning stage of my research project. I am hesitating between generating a summary table (could be complex because it includes 16 different datasets) with a paragraph presenting the overall steps, for example, n rows were removed due to missing values, duplicated data, spelling was modified for n rows, etc. or generating a list of items (could appear redundant for the reader) for each encountered issues or checking, for example, days of the week were investigated to check that all collected data were recorded during a school day. In the article format, this stage was usually not really developed except in the data supplementary appendix due to the size of the format. I wanted to develop this section in my thesis report but I am not sure about the most appropriate format to make it clear, concise, simple to understand, and interesting for the readers. Please, could you tell me if as a reader you prefer to have a table or descriptive paragraphs or more visual elements like charts to understand how the research team cleaned the data?
Thanks in advance for all your feedback on the data cleaning oresentation
Good afternoon, Ines! It is best to use a combination of text description, block diagrams and algorithms, for example, in the form of lists. To understand what will be enough for you, let someone who did not participate in it read your work. If a person understands your idea, then your goal has been achieved. As an example, you can see how we described it: Article Dynamic Pricing for the Open Online Ticket System: A Surroga...
Thanks for your advice, I will read your article to have an idea of how you present your data cleaning stage.
- Greetings, in my recent publication I also had a search strategy and a filtration process to check studies out based on inclusion criteria. for this purpose, I created a somewhat chart that was comprised of elements in Microsoft Word and I typed different stages of my search filtration process on each shape and connected them with arrows, it was accepted and looks good to me. for a better illustration, you can see Fig.1 in the figures section on this page which shows exactly how I generated it. Hope this helps! https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01518-z
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