Refer back to the previous article for the background and some introduction to REDCap.
Note
These notes are based upon REDCap version 6.4.4. Different versions may have fixed or adjusted some of this behaviour.
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REDCap is a fabulously useful tool for creating web databases, including a useful scheme for defining the database schema ("data dictionaries") in plain CSV files. However, difficulties arise when designing complex schema. It is cumbersome to code multiuple occurences of essentially the same field (e.g. sample_1 ... sample_2 ...). If …
For those not in the know, REDCap is a platform for creating and editing databases through the web. And by and large, it works fine. It saves a lot of development effort. It provides good reporting tools for users. It's secure and robust. But there are some things to be …
Prompted by a recent tweet asking what people used for storing and managing their data, I wrote down my own hard-won lessons on the topic. In rough order of preference and data complexity:
Or markdown / asciidoc. The advantages of this being: