‘Tidy’ historical data

9 February 2026

Reading

• Hadley Wickham, “Tidy Data,” Journal of Statistical Software 59, no. 10 (2014), http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i10/.
• Karl Broman and Kara Woo, “Data Organization in Spreadsheets,” The American Statistician 72, no. 1 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989.
• Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz, “Against Cleaning,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

Assignment

Activities

• Visit from Bipasha Banerjee, AI Research Scientist at University Libraries.
• Tidy data
• Getting started with R worksheet

Resources