Data Collection Checklist
Data Collection Checklist
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Good day,
I need to collect data from munics, mines, utilities. The data could be in electronic and paper format. Is there a format of a sort of checklist that you guys use to ensure all necessary data is collected, from whom and by whom, basically tracking everything? This info will go into an inception report which dictates how the project will go ahead and the accuracy/confidence of the results that will follow later on in the project?
I need to collect data from munics, mines, utilities. The data could be in electronic and paper format. Is there a format of a sort of checklist that you guys use to ensure all necessary data is collected, from whom and by whom, basically tracking everything? This info will go into an inception report which dictates how the project will go ahead and the accuracy/confidence of the results that will follow later on in the project?
Kabir Singh
WWW.AURECONGROUP.COM






RE: Data Collection Checklist
RE: Data Collection Checklist
Your post is very unclear about what you actually want to record, but if you want to record everything about everything then you are going to need a lot of paper or disk space, and some manufacturers who are willing to give away their proprietary information. Please be more specific about your aims.
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RE: Data Collection Checklist
I have only recently joined the company and this is one of the projects I am getting involved with from the inception. Ofcourse I am checking with our Info Services, dept. and even put something up on the intranet. It won't hurt to check how other people are doing this sort of thing.
We will be collecting items like contracts, load forecasting info, metering data, electrical network infrastructure, geographical info. Ihave attached a spreadsheet which I drew up yesterday as a quick draft.
The data will be used for an Energy Masterplan for a forum comprising of mining houses, utilities and municipalities.
Kabir Singh
WWW.AURECONGROUP.COM
RE: Data Collection Checklist
With this broad a scope, you could probably add about 1,234,532 lines to your spreadsheet to gather data.
RE: Data Collection Checklist
Sounds like a senior guy is really trying to dodge a bullet here by putting the new guy in the crosshairs
Good luck...
RE: Data Collection Checklist
If you try to collect all the data in the world and then grab whats useful you will need a million typing monkeys.
How about trying to figure out what the data will actually be used for and find lines of data from each participant that are useful.
Also, in a utility or other company the same data will not be collected across the board. I have found that in a utility I worked for that even between two different working groups the data collection was quite different and not really useful for comparison.
You'll need to do lots of interviews.
Good luck!
RE: Data Collection Checklist
I then go over to the different entities, collect the data, fill in the rest of the spreadheet and get signatures for the handover. Thereafter we all review the data and do an Inception Report. So the team needs to be quite clear in what they/we want otherwise it will be data overload!!!
Kabir Singh
WWW.AURECONGROUP.COM
RE: Data Collection Checklist