# Data Surgery - Methodologies

**URL:** <https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/data-surgery-methodologies/174>\
**Category:** Quest for Questions\
**Created:** [16 January 2018 12:09 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/data-surgery-methodologies/174 "2018-01-16T12:09:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [16 January 2018 12:09 UTC](https://forum.threesixtygiving.org/t/data-surgery-methodologies/174/1 "2018-01-16T12:09:36Z")

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This thread is a summary of all questions about methodology. The questions were written in our Data Surgery on 12/1/18.

- Why can’t we agree on a common Taxonomy? How else can we understand sectors?
- How can we create unique identifiers for informal groups?
- Can we weight funding data to give preference for recent years?
- How funding scale is related to eg. duration/sector/leadership (gender, age, etc.)
- How variations and renewed grant are made by organisations? How often? To what extant?
- Does the money goes where it most needed?