ACENET: Using Spreadsheets for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Librarians
Good data organization is the foundation of any research project. Most researchers have data in spreadsheets, so it鈥檚 the starting place for many research projects. To use tools that make computation and analysis more efficient, such as programming languages like R or Python, we need to structure our data the way that computers need the data. This workshop aims to teach researchers, librarians, and information professionals basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data to get more done quickly and with less pain. In this lesson, you will learn good data entry practices, how to avoid common formatting mistakes, approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets, basic quality control and data manipulation, and exporting data from spreadsheets. This domain-specific workshop focuses on examples and challenges from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and library research fields and uses librarycarpentry.org materials.
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