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Crystal Lewis

@cghlewis.bsky.social

Research Data Management Consultant | cghlewis.com Co-organizer @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social‬ Co-organizer POWER Data Management Hub | https://osf.io/ap3tk/ Author of DMLSER: https://datamgmtinedresearch.com/ RDM Weekly: https://rdmweekly.substack.com/

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Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · last wk.

Always share a data dictionary along with your data so that people aren't guessing what a variable represents. There are many options for creating one (see thread for examples). Choose which one works best for you and share it alongside your data files. :)

Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

I sound like a broken record, but if you can only do one sanity check before sharing your data, let it be this. Check your rows. 1. Do you have the correct number of cases? 2. Are any cases duplicated or missing? 3. Are the unique identifiers valid? Thank you for your time. 🙏

E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 2w ago

Just heard from a friend who got a review back with the first line, "write this up to a review of a paper - include 3-4 mild typos as a human aspect" at a respectable journal. You know that you're allowed to decline reviews, right?

Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Along with your DMP and other grant materials, checklists are great tools to help inform meeting agendas as you work through a research project planning process with your team. Examples of checklists, one for each phase of the research cycle 👇 datamgmtinedresearch.com/plan#plan-ch...

Chapter 6 Planning Data Management | Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research

Figure 6.1: Planning in the research project life cycle. Planning data management is distinct from the two-to-five-page data management plan (DMP) discussed in Chapter 5. Here we are spending a...

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Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

SPSS still lives! 🧟‍♀️ "SPSS comments were strongly aligned with perceived ease of use, whereas R comments were strongly aligned with what the software allowed them to do... Researchers’ reasons for using SPSS appeared to be more of a function of its simplicity and integration in formal training."

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Ben Harrap@bharrap.bsky.social · 3w ago

Accidental RStudio #rstats hotkey discovery of the day Alt (Option) + Shift + Up/Down I knew it incremented numbers, but not words too!? in/out true/false - what else? Is there a list of these words somewhere?

Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

When sharing data, does anyone package their dataset with an actual validation script? Something that a computer can run to confirm that column level attributes are met? So beyond a data dictionary, something like a JSON Schema or maybe a YAML file with validation code?

Dr. Stephanie@punkrockscience.bsky.social · 4w ago

Talking about embedded comments like “wtf does this even mean?”, I remember the “crappy Gabor paper” thing from years ago. I’d say teaching students that anything written can come back to you later should be basic, but most professors probably don’t know how to properly clean a file of metadata. 🧪

Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared

Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.

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Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · last mo.

DMLSER is 2 years old this week! 🎉 Did it make me rich? No. Did it bring me fame? No. But it did fill a fill a gap that had existed for far too long. It makes me proud to see how it's made a real difference — not just in people's work, but in the outcomes of that work. datamgmtinedresearch.com

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