Managing Ethnicity Data Is a Really Interesting, Concrete Example

There's something very peculiar an electronic health records research in the u k. We haven't embraced modern, open working methods that have become the norm in structural biology and structural genomics in physics. Each person has between zero and a hundred ethnicity codes over the course of their lifetime. And so you have to start thinking how do i collapse these down? How do i map different ethenisty codes from different eras on to each other? There is no such thing as a single ethnicity code in the electronic health record.