How data search can go wrong

What is it about?

We explore different ways of how data searches go wrong. The results indicate common pitfalls, and we speculate how teaching and training could be facilitated to make these pitfalls known to people who search data.

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Why is it important?

Every time we search data using internet search engines, browsing online movies, and choosing which song to play next, we search data. Although we use relatively convenient ways to search data, a software developer has implemented our natural language search terms into a language a machine can understand. Therefore it is crucial that the developer interprets our intentions correctly - otherwise we receive incorrect data. We identify and propose mitigating strategies for the most common errors.