🌱 20,000 Hours of Data Entry: Why We Didn’t Automate Our Data Collection

Humans had to handle inconsistent data between states and weird drops in data over time.

Took constant feedback to get mistakes fixed from source date from many states.

data collection is rote work, but when done as part of a supportive group, it can offer a sense of purpose and community.

collecting data manually allowed us to build a culture of curiosity and care about the data in a way that we could not have done if we were a primarily automated project.

This rings true to my experience with data at day jobs. Messing with data by hand leads to insights.