Best Practices for Managing Data in Spreadsheets

This class focuses on structuring spreadsheet data so that it is ready for data analysis, or for importing into R or Python. By the end of this class, students should be able to: describe best practices for data entry, and formatting data in spreadsheets; list common formatting mistakes; describe different approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets; identify tips for quality control and data manipulation in spreadsheets; exporting data from spreadsheets.