Manual Data, Digital Insights (Professor John Decker)

This workshop will cover some basic approaches to creating a pipeline from manual data collection, to cleaning, and to structuring. We will discuss using tools like spreadsheets to help create database-like structures (including general rules for ensuring data consistency, integrity, and ease of use). The workshop will also introduce Python-based tools (e.g. Pandas) to help with data management as well as exploratory visualization of data. The information provided will be geared toward absolute beginners with little-to-no programming knowledge or experience.