Promises and Challenges of Data Integration

• Activity Number: 662 - Statistical Challenges in Combining Survey and Administrative Data
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Thursday, August 2, 2018 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
• Author(s): Mauricio Sadinle*
• Companies: University of Washington
• Keywords: Record linkage; Data fusion; Data matching; Entity resolution; External data sources; Multiple data sources

Abstract

One of the characteristics of the modern data context is the wide availability of diverse data sources that complement each other to study a phenomenon or population. Methodologies for combining information allow us to better exploit today's data abundance, and therefore they ought to play a central role in data science. We present a (convenience) sample of research topics in data integration, and emphasize their promises and challenges.