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This lesson shows how to organize data in projects by adopting naming conventions, directory structures, and metadata standards in ways that encourage reproducibility.

We'll be exploring a data set, identifying the pitfalls of dealing with real-world data, and providing a framework for the rest of the workshop.

Prerequisites

• Navigate directory structures and copy files
• Use a plain-text editor to write text files, optionally with Markdown
• Open CSV and tab-delimited data files in a spreadsheet {: .prereq}