swcarpentry / good-enough-practices-in-scientific-computing

Minimalist alternatives to "best practices" paper
https://swcarpentry.github.io/good-enough-practices-in-scientific-computing/
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add figure to illustrate "Make each row an observation" #142

Closed jennybc closed 8 years ago

jennybc commented 8 years ago

Closes #138

Greg: here's the figure we (esp. @lexnederbragt) has discussed/wanted to explain the reshaping that can make data much easier to analyze.

Text-wise: the thing on the left is how we often keep data in a spreadsheet, for example. Often with good reason. But when you're preparing for analysis, you will probably need to transform it to the format on the right. So-called tidy data.