Ten Habits of Great Data Analysts Companion
The first book in the Ten Habits series.
Tools change. Habits are forever. This section collects the working sheets from the book: the form that starts a project properly, the checklist you run before any modeling, the questions you ask when the documentation is missing, and the map that turns a thousand variable names into a system you can explain to a collaborator.
Fill these in online
Every sheet below also works right in your browser. Open the Interactive Toolkit to fill in any form, checklist, or map, add your own rows and columns, and download the result as Markdown, plain text, a spreadsheet, or a PDF. Nothing you type leaves your device.
The tools
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Data Analysis Request Form
Start a project, clarify the deadline, and agree the analysis plan in writing before any code is written.
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Exploratory Data Analysis Checklist
Understand how the data behave before you ask them anything.
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Detective Questions
Reconstruct a study design from its fingerprints when the documentation is incomplete.
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Thinking in Data Domains
Group variables into logical domains and turn a huge variable list into a meaningful system.
More
- Key Resources: literature discovery, reproducibility, real world evidence, harmonization, privacy, and reporting style.
- For readers and educators: how to use this site alongside the book, in a course, or in a book club.
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