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Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists
http://datacarpentry.github.io/spreadsheets-socialsci/
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add caveat about manually reformatting spreadsheets #20

Closed ErinBecker closed 6 years ago

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

Episode 2 has a good exercise for fixing formatting issues in a badly formatted spreadsheet, however this may lead the learner to infer that manually formatting a spreadsheet is good practice (despite the fact that it's not reproducible). It would be good to note here the following (with a little exposition of each):

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

Closed in favor of solution proposed in #37.