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                      Data Management Guidelines

                      Best practices for data validation, cleaning, and security.

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                      Pre-Collection Validation

                      Preventing bad data from entering the system at the source.

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                      Post-Collection Cleaning

                      Reviewing, exporting, and sanitizing dataset submissions.


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