Information

1.Think of an information-gathering activity that is part of your everyday life, such as keeping track of your income and expenses for tax purposes. How do you organize the information so you can then make sense of it? Do you develop codes to classify the data? How do you double check the accuracy of your notes, entries, and numbers? Do you use Excel spreadsheets or some other software? How do these strategies relate to dissertation research and data screening? 150-250 words. Scholarly/Peer Articles within 5 years.

2.Creating a report can be tedious if individual pieces of information cannot be located.
Suppose you want to report all of your charitable donations for a year. You know that you donate some amount of money every month, but you cannot find your records for August. How might you handle this missing data so you could come up with a total dollar amount for the year? Justify your method so the IRS would understand that you are following a procedure that would be acceptable in research when screening data.