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)
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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
Other Resources
- DataAbInitio blog: Managing Research Data Right, From the Start
- Cookiecutter Data Science