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Documenting data: Readme.txt

20 May 201914 May 2025 ~ Guillaume Pasquier ~ Leave a comment

Sharing a dataset is nice, but to make it truly open you must make sure it can be interpreted and used in a meaningful way. This means your data should always include documentation that explains everything a third party should know, and a Readme file is perhaps the easiest sort of documentation you can create.

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