Additional Resources / Readings

File and Folder Organization

• “Tools for Reproducible Research: Organizing projects; exploratory data analysis”
  • notes for lecture 6 of Karl Broman’s Tools for Reproducible Research course
• “naming things”
  • slides from Jenny Bryan on naming files and folders (see also the Reproducible Science Curriculum GitHub organization)
• “File Naming Convention Worksheet” PDF and MS Word
  • worksheet resource from Kristin Briney at the Caltech Library
• “Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly Using R (and Friends)”
  • paper from Ben Marwick, Carl Boettiger, and Lincoln Mullen on structuring projects as Research Compendia, with examples of varying complexity
• “Foundational Practices of Research Data Management”
  • paper from Kristin A. Briney, Heather Coates, and Abigail Goben on research data management

Tabular Data

• “Tidy Data”

  • paper from Hadley Wickham on a framework for tabular data (see also Chapter 12, “Tidy Data” in R for Data Science)

• “Data Organization in Spreadsheets”

  • paper from Karl Broman and Kara Woo on … data organization in spreadsheets

• Best Practices for Using Google Sheets in Your Data Project - blog post on making Google Sheets easy to work with during data entry and processing, as well as data analysis later

• “Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage”

  • paper from Ted Hart et al. on principles for structuring data and data management

• “Spreadsheet Munging Strategies”

  • gitbook from Duncan Garmonsway on how to “munge” data that is NOT stored in a tidy spreadsheet