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Rewrite intro section of custom data #546

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@kmoscoe kmoscoe commented Nov 21, 2024

Before the full-on variable per row coverage, I found some egregiously incorrect statements, so doing an incremental update here. (Also cleaning up some TOC levels.)

| San Jose | 2023 | private | middle | 200 |
| San Jose | 2023 | private | secondary | 100 |

Although the properties of school type and school level may already be defined in the Data Commons knowledge graph (or you may need to define them), they _cannot_ be present as columns in the CSV files that you store in Data Commons. Instead, you must create separate "count" variables to represent each case. In our example, you would actually need 6 different variables:
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Can we caveat this by saying that the schema allows for it (same variable with different observation properties) but with simple CSV formats for custom dcs they should define separate variables.

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Let's leave it for now; I will include with the rewrite for variable-per-row.

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