Week 5 - Tools for Data Collection and Management

What do you use to collect and manage your data? We introduce you to an ETH tool available for staff and students. We also review good practices for data organization in spreadsheets, as they are commonly used tools for data entry and storage.

The Turing Way Community, & Scriberia. (2021). Illustrations from the Turing Way book dashes. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5706310

Figure 1: The Turing Way Community, & Scriberia. (2021). Illustrations from the Turing Way book dashes. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5706310

Learning Objectives

This lecture consists of one part only. In previous lectures, this was part 2 and we will keep referring to it as such.

Part 2

These learning objectives are related to the assignment for this week.

  1. Learners can use a tool for survey design for 12 to 15 questions using at least two elements of survey logic
  2. Learners can apply 12 principles for data organisation in spreadsheets in the layout of a collected dataset
  3. Learners understand the importance of documentation and metadata for (research) data management

Slides

title lecturer part slides
Tools for Data Collection and Data Management L. Schöbitz Part 2 Access slides in browser
Tools for Data Collection and Data Management L. Schöbitz Part 2 Access slides as PDF

Group work

The submission is part of Assignment 5. Each group person will:

  1. program their revised questionnaire onto a digital platform so it is ready to use for the following class.
  2. transfer their variables into a spreadsheet database.
  3. will write a codebook for their spreadsheet database.
  4. write a README for documentation of metadata.

Homework

id title_link type category effort_estimate_min submission_format due_date
1 Week 5 - Research Data Management assignment required 120 GitHub 2022-03-29
2 The Turing Way - Guide for Reproducible Research - Overview - Research Data Management reading recommended 60 no submission
3 Tidyverse Skills for Data Science - Chapter 1.2 reading recommended 30 no submission
4 The Leek group guide to data sharing reading optional 15 no submission
5 Tidy Data reading optional 15 no submission
6 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) recommendations for research data repositories reading optional 10 no submission

Corrections

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