A major strength of our study is that we analyzed all available data from all death certificates issued in a large developing country over a six year period, which allowed us to investigate temporal trends in causes of death by comparing individuals who had HIV/AIDS listed in their death certificates to those who did not.
Discussed during the forum were a variety of issues relating to data, from technical issues such as interoperability using data coming from multiple sources to more fun aspects of data such as refereeing, data poetry, cartoons and very engaging data visualisation techniques.
The model mainly drew on data from the Issues Interviews and corresponding half or each focus group, but did also incorporate some data from the Questionnaire Interviews (e.g. views about missing questionnaire items important to QOL).
Using data from On the Issues, InsideGov looked at how the current Republican candidates compare to Reagan on domestic, social, economic and defense issues.
In software engineering, analyzing software development data from social networks, issue trackers, or version control systems is proliferating.
The handouts that are used to compile data from these systems, issued by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), explicitly state why this is so: "It is important to note that the information from the people who inject drugs survey (PWID) is not representative of illicit drug use in the general population and nor is the information representative of all illicit drug users".
Accordingly, the journal's scope goes well beyond technical issues of gathering data from "sensors" or programming issues of data crawlers.
Oil and gas exploration relies for a good part on 3D earth modeling operated from raw seismic data and from information issued from drillings.
Using both our data and data from public databases these issues are explored in this paper.
The reports our volunteers create are full of useful data from the ground concerning issues such as compensation for victims, trust in government, and corruption in rebuilding.
