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Strongly Recommended Reading

The following references are must-reads to get going on best practices for working with research data as a part of the data management lifecycle. If pressed for time, read only the top five:

  • Support Your Data: A Research Data Mangement Guide for Researchers (Borghi et al.)
  • Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools (Lowndes et al.)
  • Good enough practices in scientific computing (Wilson et al.)
  • Data organization in spreadsheets (Broman & Woo)
  • Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide (Gentkow & Shapiro)
  • Data Management for Researchers (Kristen Briney)
     
  • FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship (Wilkinson et al.)
  • A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational (Biology) Projects (Noble)
  • Excuse me, do you have a minute to talk about version control? (Jennifer Bryan)
  • Best Practices for Scientific Computing (Wilson et al.)

Other Harvard Resources

  • Data Science Services at IQSS
  • DataFest (2017)
  • HMS Data Management Working Group
  • DataVerse

Other Resources

  • DataAbInitio blog: Managing Research Data Right, From the Start
  • Cookiecutter Data Science

 

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