Data Carpentry Spreadsheets for Social Science

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Data Carpentry's aim is to teach researchers basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data so that they can get more done in less time, and with less pain. The lessons below were designed for those interested in working with Social Science data in Spreadsheets.

Content Contributors: Christie Bahlai, Aleksandra Pawlik, Jennifer Bryan, Alexander Duryee, Jeffrey Hollister, Daisie Huang, Owen Jones, Ben Marwick, Tracy Teal

Lesson Maintainers: Aleksandra Pawlik, Tracy Teal

Lesson status: Teaching

Instructors

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Lessons:

1. Introduction
2. Formatting data
3. Common formatting problems
4. Dates as data
5. Exporting data
6. Data Format Caveats

Slides

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Data

Data files for the lesson are available here

Requirements

Data Carpentry's teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to use their own computers to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools, but working through this lesson requires working copies of the software described below. To most effectively use these materials, please make sure to install everything before working through this lesson.

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