Chapter
Interlude: Collecting and Managing Data
From Quantitative Problem Solving in Natural Resources by Peter Moore
Concepts
- Data Structure
"Data structure is the organization and layout of information as it is stored, while data management consists of practices that preserve data quality, integrity, and accessibility. Poor structure and
- Tidy Data
"Tidy data are organized in a rectangular structure in which each column represents a variable and each row represents an observation. A dataset becomes difficult to analyze when multiple variables ar
- Valuable Research
"Important raw data should be stored redundantly, backed up, and archived in an unmodified form, while analyses should be performed on copies. Documentation and metadata should describe where, when, a