Table 1 Participant ranking on the source of complexity in their data
Overall Rank | Number of participants assigning each source of complexity at this particular rank (1–9) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Source of complexity | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
Structure (complex = more nested elements) | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | – | – |
Variety (complex = multiple data types) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 6 | – | 2 | – |
Relationships (complex = more interaction between elements) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Number of variables (complex = more measures) | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Uncertainty and ambiguity (complex = more uncertain) | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
Contributors (complex = larger number of individuals or data points) | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Abstraction (complex = further away from raw measures) | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 4 |
Size (complex = larger number of individuals or data points) | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
Difficulty of prediction or forecasting (complex = more difficult) | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 |