These simple tips for tidy data tables will make it much easier to analyze your data while minimizing time spent on data cleaning.
Category: Collection & Reuse
Finding and collecting data, datasets we love, tips for reusing data, how to cite data
Making CSV Files More Accessible
Simple strategies make your tables more reusable and compatible with adaptive technologies like screen readers, which helps maximize impact. Since the CSV format is so common, we provide some simple changes that make them easier for everyone to access, navigate, and reuse.
Datasets We Love: By the People
We’re celebrating Love Data Week (and America’s 250th year) by highlighting the By the People collection of datasets from the Library of Congress.
Spooky Data Comic: Error Screens
Error screens – more like terror screens. These ordinary error screens have been reimagined as dire warnings of data gone dark.
CARE Principles
You’ve heard of FAIR, but have you heard of the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance? Launched in 2019, the CARE Principles promote Indigenous tribal sovereignty and can be applied to research with any population.
Data Rescue Project
Public datasets are at risk. The U.S. federal government has been removing and changing public datasets. To protect public datasets that are crucial for research, volunteers at the Data Rescue Project are preserving them in independent repositories.
Datasets We Love: London Concerts
Every February, in honor of Love Data Week, the Data Nudge features a truly lovable dataset, and this year’s is a real beauty. The Calendar of London Concerts 1750-1800 catalogs over 4,000 musical performances advertised in London daily newspapers during the concert boom of the late 1700s.
Assessing Data Quality
Using secondary data can save time and unlock powerful insights, but only if that data is high quality. Learn how to judge these six dimensions of data quality.
morrowplots Data Package
Looking for a way to teach yourself or your students about RStudio? Try the morrowplots data package. It comes with simple commands and step-by-step instructions for analyzing 100+ years of data from the Morrow Plots, an Illinois treasure and the world’s second oldest agricultural experiment.
Datasets We Love: The Morrow Plots
Let’s celebrate Love Data Week with a homegrown dataset – the University of Illinois’ Morrow Plots. There’s a lot to love with 100+ years of data in a tidy format that’s ready for analysis, plus detailed documentation and lots of fascinating context.