Formatting Your Data

Join the Schusterman Library for a video stream of Formatting Your Data for Analysis hosted by the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Informatics Syndicate.

When working with data, many of us use the spreadsheet to enter and organize the information we collect in the field, lab, or from other sources. Good data organization is the foundation of your research project. Spreadsheet programs are very useful graphical interfaces for designing data tables and handling very basic data quality control functions. However, many times these choices do not lead to data easily being read by programming languages such as R or Python.