Good practices for data collection and management

This workshop covers various general topics related to data collection and management, targetting people using spreadsheets to encode and/or manipulate data :

  • Best practices for data collection and common mistakes to avoid particularly with spreadsheets
  • Why is metadata important ?
  • Which information should be collected as data or metadata ?
  • How to organize the datasets and metadata to facilitate data analysis ?

We provide general rules/guidelines to folow and a lot of practical examples.

Presentation : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MdGMlUW4OdWoAyq2lULGB5r7IFZM0-u0/view?usp=sharing

Video recording of the workshop : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyTlgAG_58