ions are powerful means of making comparisons, but we must also remember their origins and limitations. In making comparisons, it is helpful to distinguish between two forms of relation between objects or events (cf. Sayer (1992:88). On the one hand, we can identify ‘substantial’ relations of connection and interaction. When we laugh at a joke, for example, there is a substantial connection bet...

Data quality is one of the most important problems in data management, since dirty data often leads to inaccurate data analytics results and wrong business decisions. Data cleaning exercise often consist of two phases: error detection and error repairing. Error detection techniques can either be quantitative or qualitative; and error repairing is performed by applying data transformation script...

Good qualitative research uses a systematic and rigorous approach that aims to answer questions concerned with what something is like (such as a patient experience), what people think or feel about something that has happened, and it may address why something has happened as it has. Qualitative data often takes the form of words or text and can include images. Qualitative research covers a very...

BACKGROUND Health research is frequently conducted in multi-disciplinary teams, with these teams increasingly including service user researchers. Whilst it is common for service user researchers to be involved in data collection--most typically interviewing other service users--it is less common for service user researchers to be involved in data analysis and interpretation. This means that a u...

In the recent times the amount of data are generated and stored by various industries are rapidly increasing on the internet thus data scientists are facing a lot of challenges for maintaining a huge amount of data as the fast growing industries require the significant information for enhancing the business and for predictive analysis of the information. This paper focuses on the various states...

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Non-directed interviews constitute the main data collection instrument in qualitative health research. Studies in which this is evident are well documented in international literature. For health professionals, knowing what people feel and imagine makes it possible to develop a more adequate clinician-patient relationship. It is indispensable to know what the life phenomena mean for individuals...