Author Archives: Jacob Levernier

Thoughts on Data and Ethics, and Resources for Psychology

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Jacob Levernier

Thoughts on Data Management and Data Ethics Earlier this year, Brian Westra and I gave a brief presentation on Data Management issues in an annual seminar that the Department of Psychology holds for its first-year graduate students. The seminar’s larger … Continue reading →

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Annotate, Annotate, Annotate

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Jacob Levernier

This post is part of a series on future-proofing your work (part 1, part 2). Today’s topic is annotating your work files. Short version: Write a script to annotate your data files in your preferred data analysis program (SPSS and … Continue reading →

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Saving Files for the Future

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Jacob Levernier

This is the second post in a series on future-proofing your work (part 1, part 3). Today’s topic is making a choice when clicking through the “Save As…” box in whatever program you use to do your work. It pays … Continue reading →

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Future-Proof as you go: Your future self will thank you

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Jacob Levernier

This post introduces a series about ensuring that files for your projects will be usable in the future. Part 2 is on saving files for the future. Part 3 is on annotating statistics scripts and using data “codebooks.” Perhaps everyone in the … Continue reading →

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