Researcher’s practical guide.
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Mini exercises · Practice with data ↗
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Add a reference by DOI
Import article metadata without typing the whole citation.
Merge duplicate references
Organize repeated records of the same publication.
Narrow a research search
Move from a broad topic towards relevant publications.
Follow a citation trail
Find further research from a relevant publication.
Build concept-based queries
Make a health-literature search understandable and reproducible.
Show sections based on answers
Show respondents only relevant questions.
Pretest branching
Catch incorrect routing in conditional questions.
Count categories with a PivotTable
Find how many records fall in each category.
Inspect blanks with a filter
Examine missing values before deleting anything.
Merge spelling variants
Clean inconsistent spellings of the same category.
Read a frequency table
Check category distributions and missing responses.
Inspect mean and median together
Avoid reducing a numeric variable to one summary.
Practice with example data
Learn the analysis workflow before using your own data.
Count categories including missing values
See category counts and NA values together.
Keep an analytic memo
Make coding decisions traceable.
Make a column chart readable
Compare the sizes of categories.
Take a first look at your CSV
Inspect columns and missing-value counts with Python and pandas.
Read descriptive statistics together
Work with the mini survey and compare your output with the expected result.
Compare two group means
Work with the mini survey and compare your output with the expected result.
Create a bar chart from frequencies
Work with the mini survey and compare your output with the expected result.
Read descriptive statistics together
Work with the mini survey and compare your output with the expected result.
Compare two group means
Work with the mini survey and compare your output with the expected result.
Create a bar chart from frequencies
Work with the mini survey and compare your output with the expected result.
Read the data dictionary before analyzing
Use the OpenAI Signals dictionary to distinguish row units, measures and comparison groups.