jtleek/datasharing
The Leek group guide to data sharing
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This is a guide for anyone who needs to share data with a statistician or data scientist. The target audiences I have in mind are: The goals of this guide are to provide some instruction on the best way to share data to avoid the most common pitfalls and sources of delay in the transition from data collection to data analysis. The Leek group works with a large number of collaborators and the number one source of variation in the speed to results is the status of the data when they arrive at the Leek group. Based on my conversations with other statisticians this is true nearly universally. My strong feeling is that statisticians should be able to handle the data in whatever state they arrive. It is important to see the raw data, understand the steps in the processing pipeline, and be able to incorporate hidden sources of variability…
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- How to share data with a statistician
- What you should deliver to the statistician
- The raw data
- The tidy data set
- The code book
- How to code variables
- The instruction list/script
- What you should expect from the analyst
- Contributors
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The Leek group guide to data sharing
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