Data clean-up and management : a practical guide for librarians /

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 pres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hogarth, Margaret
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Furuta, Kenneth
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2012.
Series:	Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:	Data editing. Libraries > Data processing. Édition (Informatique) Bibliothèques > Informatique. COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy. COMPUTERS > Computer Science. COMPUTERS > Data Processing. COMPUTERS > Hardware > General. COMPUTERS > Information Technology. COMPUTERS > Machine Theory. COMPUTERS > Reference. Data editing Libraries > Data processing Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.