Demographic data validation

[adriansteffan]

The MB Validator spared us a lot of trouble, but we should still think about if it makes sense to validate the values entered into the demogrpahic data before analysis

[mzettersten]

It looks like there are widespread parsing issues across very many labs in the demographic .csv's. These almost always take the form that a "," in a cell is apparently inadvertently treated as a separator, spreading a single cell entry across one or more columns. Could it be that this is not due to issues in the original lab data per se, but due to an issue in how we processed that original data into a common .csv format? (either in the instructions given to labs or in how we exported the original data?). It might save a lot of effort (tracking down individual issues by hand) if this is the case and we can identify the processing/ exporting issue.

[mzettersten]

mostly solved, possibly???