[Informatics] How many records for a data set?

[Des Reuben]

I am finding this conversation very interesting. Having completed a Masters recently and undertaken a Professional Project in which I punched out 10,000 odd words we were told not to have more than three written questionnaires and/or three interviews for our Primary Data collection. I broke the rules and used a massive five!!

Are we setting this number too high??

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
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On 12 May 2016 at 15:30, McCleary Scott <McCS at jpc.vic.edu.au<mailto:McCS at jpc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
Seems to be that the consensus is around the 100 mark.  This is what I have been aiming for.

Would you think that it’s 100 of primary as well as 100 of secondary data?  I have some students asking if they have to gather 100 records can it be 50 of each


Maybe that's getting rather too precise about arbitrary and artificial parameters?

It's a bit like trying to precisely define the date and time of birth of the Easter bunny.

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Mark Kelly
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