Semantic Versioning for Data Products

Semantic versioning lets you communicate your promises…

A Love Letter to Make

Make is 43 this year and it is still my tool of choice to automate my data…

Choose Great Keys

Keys should human readable, not just machine readable.

The Five Stages of Data

Much as with the five stages of grief, you have to go through all the stages…

Everything is a Function

Procedural programming comes natural to scientists, because it reads like a…

Reproducible Data Wrangling

For the movements of “reproducible research” and “open data” to really…

The Tupperware Approach to Coding

A tree structure is effective to organize the information you have…

The Power of Plain Text

Portability and ease of exploration beats a tight schema-confirming database…

Spatial Relations

Look around and start seeing the world in points, lines, and polygons.

Eggs Are Easier to Ship than Omelettes

- I estimated the regression model we discussed last week and it didn’t work.
- Which…