Chapter 266: Data Entry, Trick Others Into Doing It! (10,000 Rewards Plus 1 Update)

Grete only turned through a few pages and knew that this statistical work was far from being completed by him alone. Even adding Aurora is almost the same as not adding...

On January 1, the death toll was 42.

On February 8, the death toll was 53.

On March 15, the death toll was 47.

...July 6, death toll, 59.

As a result of rough sampling, the number of daily deaths fluctuates between 40 and 60, which means that the annual number of deaths fluctuates between 14,000 and 20,000. If the statistical scope is expanded to 20 years, he will have to record data on at least 280,000 people and at most 400,000 people.

If each person enters seven values: year, month, gender, age range, income range, residence range, and cause of death, a total of 1.4 million to 2 million values ​​must be processed...

If Grete was a statistician or social scientist, he would probably do it slowly and spend one, two or even more years sorting out the data. But he doesn't have as long as one or two years. From now until mid-December, when he requests a hearing, there is only a little more than half a month.

As for the demographic work, Grete gave himself a time limit of 5 days.

Gretel thought for a moment and decided to start with the basics. He rolled up his sleeves and made a form of his own:

For each death information, the gender is male or female, and the age range is 0-6 years old, and every 10 years old is an interval for those over 6 years old;

Income is divided into four ranges: low-income, middle-lower, middle-higher, and rich;

The residential areas are divided into four areas: slum area, small craftsman area, middle-class area and rich area;

There are many causes of death, which are divided into major categories such as plague, acute disease, chronic disease, accident, suicide, dystocia, etc. Each major category is divided into several minor categories...

In the dark database, Gretel was sweating while doing the forms. After finishing the work, he entered and timed it by himself. After typing one page, he calculated that he could only enter the information of 6 people per minute on average.

In other words, if he is diligent, makes no mistakes, and maintains concentration for 8 hours a day, probably...

It will take about 100 to 140 days to complete the entry?

...Very good, that is to say, if he wants to finish the liver within five days, he needs 20 to 28 tabulators... That's it, not counting the manpower needed for review, supervision, and statistics...

So where can he hire, no, prostitute a group of people for free?

Gretel held his chin up and thought for a moment. He spread out a new piece of parchment, pulled out the [Endless Ink Pen], and began to write:

"Dear Master Edgar..."

Well, let’s collect some from the Black Crow Swamp, and the Order of the God of Nature will collect another batch. Anyway, this job is not difficult, as long as you can read, draw the right words on the table, and count, that's it. Oh, by the way, you also need to be patient and conscientious. I think those who can become preparatory spell casters should not lack this quality?

Aurora went to run errands for the Necromancy School, and Bernard went to Oak Ridge to run errands. In the afternoon of the same day, the two of them returned one after another, bringing replies from the two schools of thought:

Elder Wood said that it is winter, diseases are common among poor people, and the church cannot spare many people. Allocating him 10 priest apprentices to work for five days is already the limit. Arrive tomorrow and leave after five days. No one more person or one more day is allowed!

Over at Black Crow Swamp, Archmage Edgar generously expressed his willingness to help him. The 20 newly recruited apprentices this year can be thrown over to work for him without any problem. Just ask Grete to remember to take some time off to teach the children anatomy.

"30 people..."

Grete sighed leisurely.

Still not enough, it would be better to have 10 more - 20 would be even better.

His eyes moved around Aurora, thinking whether to go to the Archmage Carlisle himself or send Aurora to make another trip and recruit a few people from the Archmage's disciples. After much deliberation, I rummaged through the space bag and took out a volume of manuscripts.

"Bernard! Come with me! Let's go to the Fleet Barracks!"

Gretel met Bishop Ampton in the military camp as he wished. After sitting down and chatting for a few words, Gretel made a straightforward request: Ask Bishop Ampton to help introduce the person in charge of the local temple, and lend him ten - preferably 20 - priest apprentices to work for him for five days.

"this……"

Bishop Ampton hesitated. As a bishop of the Temple of the God of War, he took a different path from the priests of his generation. After reaching level 5, he could have presided over a parish, even a small temple in a barony. However, by mistake, he was sent to cooperate with the Magic Council. From then on, he was thrown into the fleet, swimming in the wind and waves, and sleeping on the sea.

In the past ten years, the priest's level has been advanced from level 5 to level 7, and the ships following him have also changed from offshore patrols to ocean-going fleets traveling to and from the New World. However, the relationship with the local temple, apart from often visiting and praying when the fleet returns, and going back to study after advancing, there are not even a few acquaintances...

He had to borrow someone to show off his face, and he also had to lend himself to the Magic Council. Bishop Apton thought to himself, it was really not such a big deal.

"You're not borrowing from someone empty-handed."

Grete smiled and pushed the copy of the codex over:

"Have a look at this "Battlefield First Aid Manual". Is it useful to the God of War Temple?"

Battlefield first aid? Bishop Ampton was moved. He couldn't wait to grab it and open it, to stop bleeding on the battlefield, bandage the battlefield, move the wounded, first aid for burns, first aid for drowning, first aid for snake bites...

Which one is useless? Which one can't save a few dozens of lives on the battlefield? It’s a rare system project that can be used to train pastors!

Bishop Ampton's eyes grew brighter as he looked. Finally, he closed the manuscript and stood up suddenly:

"Don't worry! With this manual, not to mention bringing 20 people over to work for five days, even if we bring the entire temple over to help you work for a month or two, that's no problem!"

At eight o'clock the next morning, Grete stood in a specially vacated conference room in the city hall, facing downwards. Aurora on the left and Bernard on the right threw out two sacks of blank forms to the 50 spellcasters who gathered on time.

"Two people work in groups, and each group is responsible for the record book for a year. One person reads aloud and the other fills out the form.

Another ten people were selected - two from the Order of the God of Nature, four from the Black Crow Swamp, and four from the Temple of the God of War. They were responsible for supervising and checking whether the entered data was correct. Supervisors should not supervise people in their own organizations.

The year and month are written at the beginning of each form. For other items, check the corresponding boxes——

Do you have any other questions? "

A group of trainee spellcasters, the youngest in their early teens and the oldest nearly 20 years old, gathered in three groups and looked at each other. Although there is no direct conflict between the Order of the God of Nature and the Temple of the God of War, there is also a competitive relationship. The clergy instinctively hate the aura of death, and in the eyes of the Necromancers...

If you don't rely on your own strength to analyze the mysteries and embrace the lap of gods, what is that?

The triangle of death, we hate each other.

You must not be singled out by the God of Nature Priest (War Priest/Necromancer)!

You must do it faster than them!

here you go!

"no problem!"

The three groups of trainee spellcasters shouted in unison.

Grete sat on the podium with satisfaction. Under the podium, there are 20 tables, arranged in groups of two, and they are getting busy:

"Anita, female, 24 years old, tailor. Address: 382 Bronte Street. Cause of death: smallpox."

"Brad, male, 18 years old, sailor. Address unknown. Cause of death: Overboard while sailing."

"Julia, female, 22 years old. Address: Fleet Street. Cause of death: ulcer."

One person reads and the other writes. The person reading does not need to be distracted, and the person writing does not need to raise his head. Grete saw with satisfaction that the input efficiency was more than double that of his own work.

He secretly praised himself, took a sip of water, took out a magic book and started reading. However, not long after watching, the tense and harmonious atmosphere below began to collapse. The boys and girls were chattering and arguing:

"You filled in the wrong box! 35 years old is in the right box!"

"You missed a line! Go back and read it again!"

"That woman is not a rich person! Erase it and move it two squares to the left!"

"What are you doing? She lives on Fleet Street, how could she not be rich?"

"Are you out of your mind? She lives on Fleet Street, she's sore and dead - she's obviously a flower girl! How could she be a rich person?!"

"Mr. Nordmark, if you don't have an address, which box should you check?"

"Mr. Nordmark—"

"Mage Nordmark?"

Gretel: "...Stop! Everyone stand up, move a table to the left, and move the table on the far left to the far right! Start from the beginning, read aloud, check, and see how many mistakes there are!"

There was another burst of chaos. Gretel got off the podium and walked back and forth between the tables, stretching his head to take a look from time to time. In less than ten minutes, in front of the recorder responsible for verification, a large sheet of white paper had more than a dozen words "positive" written on it...

This error rate is simply unacceptable!

I was wrong. The possibility of errors in manually entering the form is too high, and it cannot be used as a statistical basis...

Senior John Grant, how did you write such a masterpiece as "Natural and Political Observations on Mortality" in 1662 based on decades of death reports in London and purely manual statistics? Not to mention statistics, just entering data correctly is so difficult!

Grete barely suppressed his sadness and watched the trainee spellcasters reading, recording, checking, and working hard. Work from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, take a one-hour lunch break, and work from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. After dinner, everyone was sent back to their homes. Gretel was alone looking at the record books on the table, frowning.

"Gretel, what's the matter?" Aurora Walton sat down next to him. Grete lamented: "There are too many mistakes... It can't be used like this..."

"Then...call a few more people to check more times?...Let them do it slower?"

Gretel just shook his head. After being asked, he put his hands on the back of his head and leaned back:

"It would be great if it could automatically scan and enter automatically..."

"This...is not impossible..."

Aurora Wharton suggested cautiously. Gretel jumped up suddenly: "How to do it? Which magic can do it?!"

"Well, it's not magic. The Taling sorting papers are automatically scanned and automatically assigned to destinations. I mean, you can ask if you can use the Taling to do this?"

"Great!" Gretel's whole body lit up. He grabbed Aurora and asked:

"Who should I apply to? What are the application conditions? - Hey, I wish you had said you could use the Tower Spirit!"

"The Tower of Babel has a special calculation room. Archmages can apply for it - I can use the teacher's authority -" Aurora was shaken forward and backward by him, and her words almost broke. When it came to the last question, he hesitated all of a sudden:

"Then, isn't that, using the tower spirit is too expensive..."

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Today, I calculated these data myself... I also measured the speed of manual entry... See the pictures for the test process...

I asked in the group, "How many working hours does it take to input as much data as the main character does?" Then, I listened to seven or eight group members, crying with blood and tears for a full two hours, about how hard it is to input data manually. It’s unreliable, how tiring and frustrating it is to collect and summarize all kinds of data (even with spreadsheets), and all kinds of incredible difficulties, problems and errors...

Trembling... How did John Grant, a statistician, do it in 1662...

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