Stop and read this. It may save you whole lot of grief and panic. Maybe you’ve heard that a stolen iPhone is nothing more than a brick. Perhaps you feel as if your data is safe. You have a password and it’s not 123456. You have find my iPhone. Allow me to burst your bubble…
I was going to write more about reading JSON data but that will have to wait because I’m teaching a biostatistics class and I think this will be helpful to them. What’s a codebook? If you are using even a moderately complex data set, you will want a code book. At a minimum, it will…
Sometimes data changes shape and type over time. In my case, we had a game that was given away free as a demo. We saved the player’s game state – that is, the number of points they had, objects they had earned in the game, etc. as a JSON object. Happy Day! The game became…