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 # deid-risk
 
-This repository is dedicated to compute risk for a given database
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+This project is intended to compute an estimated value of risk for a given database.
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+    1. Pull meta data of the database and create a dataset via joins
+    2. Generate the dataset
+    3. Compute risk via SQL using group by
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