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- Go back to the original source and the right version of the data
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- Correctly attribute/cite the data sources when you project
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- Reach out to data creators and ask for potential clarifications you might need to correctly interpret the data
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-Inquiry for any data updates at a later date
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-Inquire about potential data updates at a later date
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## Keep raw data raw
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Develop naming conventions for files and folders:
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- Avoid spaces (use underscores or dashes)
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- Avoid punctuation or special characters
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- Try to leverage alphabetical order (e.g., start with dates: 2020-05-08)
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- Avoid any other punctuation or special characters
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- Try to leverage alphabetical order used by default by computers to sort files (e.g., start with dates in the [ISO format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601): YYYY-MM-DD, as example 2020-05-08)
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- Use descriptive naming (lite metadata)
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- Use folders to structure/organize content
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- Keep it simple
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- Avoid using upper case, or at least be consistent in usage (e.g. Folder's name start with upper case, files with lower case)
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- Use folders to structure/organize content, but avoid more than 3 levels of nesting
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- Keep it simple, e.g. no path longer than 255 characters
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- Make it programmatically useful:
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- Useful to select files (Wildcard *, regular expression)
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- But don’t forget Humans need to read file names too!!
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