Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care ~ Data Gathering or Data Collection
Data Gathering or Data Collection
The knowledge and skills to gather data in simple and more complex forms to support the gatherer's needs. This could involve the planning, development and execution of surveys or gathering data from other sources such as administrative data, satellite or social media data (Statistics Canada, 2020).
Be able to obtain, access and gather the appropriate data and/or data sources, and be able to apply data limitations and quality measures (e.g., validity, reliability, biases in the data, difficulty in collection, accuracy, completeness)(Learn2Analyze, 2017).
Data collection, manipulation, and analysis processes: These behaviours that can be qualified mainly as motivational can be supplemented by distinct steps that are needed for data sharing. Some of them are described by Buckland (2011) as follows:
• Discovering if the suitable data set exists;
• Identifying its location;
• Examining if the copy is usable or not;
• Clearing if it is permissible to use;
• Ascertaining its interoperability, i.e. if it is standardized enough to be
usable with acceptable effort;
• Judging if its description is clear enough to indicate what the given data
set represents;
• Ascertaining trust;
• Deciding if the given dataset is usable for someone's purpose. (Cited in Koltay, 2015)
Relevant Links
These links are typically articles defining data literacy that include this theme in their definition.
Statistics Canada, Antti Poikola, Canada.ca, 2020;, Korri Palmer, Safegraph, Canada.ca, 2021;, Antti Poikola, Apolitical, 2021;, Antti Poikola, Learn2Analyze, 2017;, Chantel Ridsdale, et.al., Dalhousie University, Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of Sixteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 2015;, Databilities, et.al., Data to the People, Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of Sixteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 2020;, Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch, Jose J. Cavero Montaner, Umar Rashid, Gerd Kortuem, Canada.ca, 2016;, Andreas Grillenberger, Ralf Romeike, Kateryna Maltseva Reiby, Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, Safegraph, 2018;, Australian Public Service Commission, Christian Fieseler, Government of Australia, The Information Society, 2021;, Dave Wells, Christian Fieseler, Eckerson Group, The Information Society, 2022;, Tibor Koltay, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2015;