oWS4: Psych-DS: Practical steps to a standardized and shareable dataset
You may have heard of FAIR data - findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. But what does this mean in practice? You can save yourself hundreds of hours of work with consistent choices that make your data easier (1) for a person (including yourself!) to understand, and (2) for using software tools to help avoid errors and duplicated effort.
Psych-DS is like spellcheck for data: a system of rules for organizing a collection of data, with automatic tools for checking those datasets. If you have a folder with one or more files of row-and-column data in it, you can use Psych-DS!
This workshop will teach you to create a Psych-DS dataset directory, using the web-based validator (https://psych-ds.github.io/validator/). We'll discuss using Psych-DS during data collection, for sharing, and when dealing with sensitive data.
No experience is necessary - Join us!