Online tool feature wish: check for unique identifiers

[aalexandersson]

I have a feature wish for data inputting in the online tool: check for unique identifiers.

That is, specify which variable(s) uniquely identify an observation (a.k.a. a record, a row of data). For example, perhaps idvar uniquely identifies observations within panels identified by pvar. In Stata, the command for the example would be isid idvar pvar.

A simple implementation in dataMaid would be a drop down box where the user specifies the unique identifier(s).

The feature would be helpful almost every time I receive a dataset from another user as a first basic error check.

[annennenne]

Thank you for the suggestion. I agree that this could be a useful feature and I will implement it in dataMaid at some point. However, I don't think we will include it in the dataMaid app until we have the next version done that works well on the internet. So it will probably be a while until it's available in the online tool (maybe a few months).