Data Mint

Learn

• What to expect

  Time, cost, and what to do while a row says minting. Read this one first.

• Your first mint

  One pass through the product: sign in, upload documents, write a codebook, mint, inspect, export.

• FAQ

  The questions people ask when they start, grouped by where they come up in the work.

• Highlight cards

  A visual essay on codebook craft, one idea per card, in seven parts.

• Craft the codebook

  What a codebook entry has to achieve, how to test it on a few documents, and what to do with the disagreements it turns up.

  Also as a printable essay: craft-the-codebook-essay.pdf

• Glossary

  Research methodology terms used across the site and in the guides.

• How AI extraction works

  What the readers see, why they see one document at a time, and where the evidence trail comes from.

• Extraction techniques

  Approaches to pulling structured data out of documents, and where each one holds up.