Traditionally a researcher would look
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This means your infrastructure needs to be up the job of providing data quickly to multiple apps on potentially thousands of handsets. We’re using 3scale to improve our API loading.
programmatic access of data is flatter than perhaps traditional data analysts are used to. at a dataset, run a query and then run more queries on the results returned. Through an API, it’s less about multi-tiered queries and more about getting into the minds of developers. For example, I might want to plot the results of a survey question over lebanon rcs data time or I might want to iterate through an array of values to visualise them within my app. We quickly realised some of the traditional tools that are used by a limited number of researchers at a time are not going to work for this larger-scale programmatic access of the data
data weighting can’t be left to developers. For some of us it was a whole new topic that we hadn’t heard of. Speaking as a developer, maybe I’m lazy. I expect a well defined API, with good documentation and some coding examples. I assume that the data is correct, but without weighting you can get strange results. Weighting is the process of balancing out data, particularly from surveys, that has too many answers from one demographic and not enough from another. The classic example is young men, because young men apparently don’t like to answer surveys (You learn something new every day), so datasets have to be “weighted” or balanced to take this into account, otherwise the three young men that did answer the survey could massively skew the results. Luckily we have the expert help of the UK Data Service to guide us on this.
programmatic access of data is flatter than perhaps traditional data analysts are used to. at a dataset, run a query and then run more queries on the results returned. Through an API, it’s less about multi-tiered queries and more about getting into the minds of developers. For example, I might want to plot the results of a survey question over lebanon rcs data time or I might want to iterate through an array of values to visualise them within my app. We quickly realised some of the traditional tools that are used by a limited number of researchers at a time are not going to work for this larger-scale programmatic access of the data
data weighting can’t be left to developers. For some of us it was a whole new topic that we hadn’t heard of. Speaking as a developer, maybe I’m lazy. I expect a well defined API, with good documentation and some coding examples. I assume that the data is correct, but without weighting you can get strange results. Weighting is the process of balancing out data, particularly from surveys, that has too many answers from one demographic and not enough from another. The classic example is young men, because young men apparently don’t like to answer surveys (You learn something new every day), so datasets have to be “weighted” or balanced to take this into account, otherwise the three young men that did answer the survey could massively skew the results. Luckily we have the expert help of the UK Data Service to guide us on this.