Messy Directory Teaching Example

Files for an exercise on file, data, and code documentation and organization.

Files can be used to help students identify problems that make it difficult to share or reuse analyses. There are many problems with the folder structure, file naming, data organization, and code organization in this example

directory.

This was originally created for the NEON Data Science Institute 2016 (https://www.neonscience.org/neon-data-institute-2016) by Naupaka Zimmerman (https://github.com/naupaka).

The data and files are for the most part derived from various NEON remote sensing (AOP) products from the D17 California sites.

Students can be shown the introductory slides (http://neonscience.github.io/slide-shows/intro-reprod-science.html) and then asked to identify problems in the directory.

This fileset is designed as a teaching example. No data in this fileset should be used for research. Please visit data.neonscience.org for research data.