So I’m new to this group. I’ve worked in corporate “big data” and “data warehousing” for almost 20 years. I also own a small business that sells the “CMS/NPPES Npi database in most popular database flavors.
My observation is as follows…it seems to me that a good portion of the requests in this group are for a very specific set of data.
I’m not an academic, but how do you end up deciding what you want your thesis to be before figuring out if the data is even available?
Many of the assistance requests are for data whose source is behind a corporate policy which the industry / corporations are not going to let become public.
Another example is medical data which is protected by HIPPA in the US.
Pardon my wording, but is this a “cart before the horse” situation?
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