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04-02-2021-Carpentry-for-HGIS/01_Day_1_Unix_Shell/B0_generate_country_data_exercise%20copy #14

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Exercise (data generation) — Python essentials for GIS learners

https://the-magnificents.github.io/04-02-2021-Carpentry-for-HGIS/01_Day_1_Unix_Shell/B0_generate_country_data_exercise%20copy.html

jurra commented 3 years ago

Hey @Ashley I was wondering if it wouldnt be more practical to ask them to create the dataset in google docs, or excel, which is more realistic. Then they can download it as a csv to manipulate it. The main reason why I thought about this is because, its very unlikely that you write csv files manually, instead you normally would go with sheets. We could mention that this can be done manually but it really doesnt make sense.

In fact it can be easy that they get exposed to creating a dataset with the tools that are normally used for this like sheets or forms. Then they will eventually have a challenge of data version control as well, and will think about this.