Tag: Metadata
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Before the Data Contract
A data contract can define how data should be structured, delivered and validated, but it cannot determine what users actually need. Drawing on my experience with clinical cohort discovery, I explore why data requirements should begin with the research question, how clinical concepts differ from source fields, and why meaning, context and known limitations are…
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Analysis-ready is not AI-ready.
A tidy schema can create a reassuring sense of readiness. Yet common column names and clean tables tell us little about whether meaning, context and relationships will hold up when the data is used by AI.