Week 5: Data and an intro to the command line

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.
• Programming Historian: Ian Milligan and James Baker, Introduction to the Bash Command Line
• Julia Evans, What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

Assignment

• Find or create rectangular/tabular data from your own research interests to bring to class with you.
• Download a command line terminal if you are using Windows. See Computing: Command line.

Activities

• The benefits and drawbacks of spreadsheets.
• Tidy data: What is tidy data?
  • Workshop: Is the data you have tidy? If not, how should it be changed to be tidy?
• Workshop: Intro to the command line
  • Software Carpentry - The Unix Shell
  • Download toy data
  • Glossary of shell commands

Resources

• Data Carpentry - Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists
• Software Carpentry - The Unix Shell
• Getting help with shell commands
  • Explain shell
  • tldr pages
• Hartl, Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous
  • Very good basic tutorial and guide that can be used as a good reference.
• Bates, Conquering the Command Line
  • More in depth than Learning Enough and discusses more advanced commands.
• Sean Kross, The Unix Workbench