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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook. By Kristoffer Bjärkefur, Luíza Cardoso de Andrade, Benjamin Daniels, and Maria Jones
https://worldbank.github.io/dime-data-handbook/
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ch 2 and 6 #498

Closed luizaandrade closed 4 years ago

luizaandrade commented 4 years ago

Make sure this is mentioned in ch 2: "Agree with your team on what tools will be used for what outputs, and where they will be stored, before you start creating them. Take into account ease of use for different team members, and keep in mind that learning how to use a new tool may require some time investment upfront that will be paid off as your project advances. Knowing how your code outputs will be used will help you decide the best format to export them. You can typically use the same command to save figures into different formats, such as \texttt{.eps}, \texttt{.png}, \texttt{.pdf} or \texttt{.jpg}. However, the decision between using Office Suite software such as Word and Power Point versus {\LaTeX} and other plain text formats may influence how you write your code, as this choice often implicates in the use of a particular command. We strongly recommend that you chose software to create final products that can be linked to raw outputs in such a way that they are updated in the paper or presentation every time changes are made to them. We broadly call files that have this feature \textbf{dynamic documents}, and they will be discussed in more detail in the final section of this chapter."