Insight provide a full range of services in the preparation of health data.

Numerous tasks are involved in preparing data for subsequent analysis including:

• Importing data - importing data with different file types or message passing techniques, and converting it into a more accessible file type

• Data integration – combining data from different file types and sources (this can become exceedingly complex when the data to be integrated comes from different organizations)

• Data quality checks – including exploring missing data, normality and range checks, consistency between measures, and basic plots of the data

• Data conversion – converting data from one variable type to another

• Coding – converting qualitative data into numeric data

It is important to note that a number of different business decisions can be made as the quality of the data is assessed including

• Go – continue the project as originally planned

• Wait – while the questions to be asked of the data are reviewed in response to the quality of the data

• Stop – in the worst-case scenarios poor quality data might mean that the project cannot be completed

See details about our workshops in Survey Design and Methodology.

Insight is based at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct. The Precinct contains Griffith University Gold Coast, the Gold Coast University Hospital, the Gold Coast Private Hospital, and the Cohort and Lumina tech parks. Insight provides research, consulting, training, and IT support services for clients across the Precinct and for the broader international community.