# Data Summarisation Template

| Mandatory? | Question                                                                                     | Explanation                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| REQUIRED   | **1. How would you describe the dataset in one sentence?**                                   | What is the dataset about?                                                                                                                                                  |
|            | **2. What does the dataset look like?**                                                      | File format, data type, information about the structure of the dataset                                                                                                      |
|            | **3.What are the headers?**                                                                  | Can you group them in a sensible way? Is there a key column?                                                                                                                |
|            | **4. What are the value types and value ranges for the most important headers?**             | Words/numbers/dates and their possible ranges                                                                                                                               |
| OPTIONAL   | **5. Where is the data from?**                                                               | When was the data collected/published/updated? Where was the data published and by whom? (_required if not mentioned in metadata_)                                          |
|            | **6. In what way does the dataset mention time?**                                            | What timeframes are covered by the data, what do they refer to and what is the level of detail they are reported in? (E.g. years/day/time/hours etc.)                       |
|            | **7. In what way does the dataset mention location?**                                        | What geographical areas does the data refer to? To what level of detail is the area or location reported? (E.g. latitude/longitude, streetname, city, county, country etc.) |
|            | **8. Is there anything unclear about the data, or do you have reason to doubt the quality?** | How complete is the data (are there missing values)? Are all column names self explanatory? What do missing values mean?                                                    |
|            | **9. Is there anything that you would like to point out or analyse in more detail?**         | Particular trends or patterns in the data?                                                                                                                                  |

Source: [Everything You Always Wanted to Know About a Dataset: Studies in Data Summarisation](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581918306153#sec0024)
