This latter finding, coupled with the relative inexpense of mailed surveys compared to telephone and face-to-face [ 7], makes the mailed survey a particularly attractive method of data collection for health researchers.
Monitoring patient depression with such a simple, single SMS text score instead of the administration of lengthy questionnaires represents an attractive mode of data collection in view of compliance rates and patient burden.
Using attractive design and innovative data collection methods, Stories of Solidarity brings workers' struggles to a broader audience than could be reached through traditional channels.
The availability of demographic and disease characteristic data on large patient populations, coupled with the minimal cost and relative speed of conducting retrospective investigations, provide an attractive alternative to original data collection.
Alternatives to paper collection, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) or standard mobile phones, with subsequent synchronization with a user's laptop or desktop computer, offer attractive opportunities for remote data collection in many areas.
As crowdsourced data is a feasible solution to data collection, it is attractive to be able to create location-specific audio ambiances in a cost-effective way, using a small amount of audio.
Parallelization strategies will be highly attractive as the speed at which data collection improves.
It is clear that the promise of Connecting for Health - the body that looks after the NHS's IT infrastructure - was attractive; similar systems up and down the country, standards for data collection, easy data exchange between healthcare workers.
Sensus Multimedia is a Windows-based program used to construct attractive, easy to follow interviews that facilitate accurate and efficient data collection.
As several novel traits currently under investigation are expensive to record, using research herds for phenotyping in combination with genomics are an attractive source of data, as are herds that engage in intensive data collection.
