NoStupidQuestions: What is Metadata?
This video is part of ICPSR’s #NoStupidQuestions series, offering videos that help answer data questions you might be afraid to ask. What is the difference between data and statistics? What exactly is metadata? We’ll answer these questions and more in short, easy-to-digest videos featuring ICPSR’s unique blend of fun and learning.
Have you ever had a professor give you an assignment, and you didn’t know how to do it, but you were too embarrassed to ask? In this episode of the “My Professor Said…” series, our grumpy professor tells us to use metadata to find data. Which seems simple. It’s meta, and it’s data, and you smoosh them together to make… what exactly? We explain metadata and organize our kitchen at the same time.