The Data Nudge: Bite-sized tips for better data
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Issues by Category
Data Fundamentals
Resources, strategies, terminology, metadata, documentation
Data Comics
Fun and funny visuals on a range of topics from our annual Halloween issue
Funders & Planning
Funder requirements for sharing and stewarding data, data management planning
Collection & Reuse
Finding and collecting data, datasets we love, tips for reusing data, how to cite data
Storage & Backups
Storage options, backup strategies, migrations, retention, destruction
Organization & Cleaning
Organizing and cleaning data, files and directories, versioning
Analysis & Presentation
Tools and tips, visualization, sonification, accessible presentation formats
Sharing & Publishing
Repositories, data curation, licenses, sharing agreements, tips for reusability
Sensitive Data & Privacy
Human subjects, de-identification, protections, requirements
About the Archive
This Archive makes past issues of the Data Nudge easy to find and reuse. Post dates reflect when the original email newsletter was sent. We’d like to think that all of our advice is timeless, but it’s not, and outdated content has been updated or removed. For your convenience, extraneous stuff – like email headers and footers – has also been removed. For an unedited record of past Data Nudges, please see the IDEALS repository.