TycheManual:ResearchNotes

We want every data storyteller to preserve the process that they used. Visibility into the processes that you use provides a few benefits:

• speaks to the credibility of your work
• enables future updates of the article w/ new data
• assists with the editorial review

Importantly, others may want to leverage the process and tools that you create to tell their story.

A process document can be of any format - it could be a Word doc, Google doc, notes in a Jupyter notebook or Google Collaboratory, or many other forms. The content in the process document can include:

• Working notes
• Statistics
• Sequence of events of any data wrangling or data loading and transforming
• Metadata on the input or output
• Tools used and how they were used
• Missteps and failures

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