====== Scoring procedure ======


This page describes how data flows across the scoring part of the cluster. 

There are 3 general rules that we try to stick to.

  - The scorer/user **never** works directly with the 'raw copy' or backup copy, but rather the data being worked with should be copied to the workspace folder.
  - Datasets should be 'checked out' to scorers, with one or more scorers using a folder on the workspace to make changes (scoring) to the data.
  - We always keep a 'raw copy' of the data, in the state that we collected it/received it. We try to maintain backups of each 'stage of the process the data goes through'. After scoring/changing raw data, the data is **not** placed back in the raw data folder, but rather moved to the 'scored data' folder.


These 3 rules, if followed consistently, and enforced, stand a good chance of limiting issues such as duplicate datasets, duplicate datasets with disparate scorings (i.e. 1 dataset X with scoring A, and one copy of X with scoring B), lost data, and irrecoverably corrupted data.


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