How to Make a Data Dictionary

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https://help.osf.io/hc/en-us/articles/360019739054-How-to-Make-a-Data-Dictionary
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A data dictionary is critical to making your research more reproducible because it allows others to understand your data. The purpose of a data dictionary is to explain what all the variable names and values in your spreadsheet really mean. This OSF Best Practice Guide gives examples and instruction on how to asemble a data dictionary.

Authoring Person(s) Name: 
Sara Bowman
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Open Science Framework (OSF)
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0
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No fee
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English
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Data archiving
Data management
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Medicine and Health Sciences
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Published / Broadcast: 
Friday, March 1, 2019
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Open Science Framework (OSF)
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Open Science Framework (OSF)
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Purpose - primary educational reason for which the learning resource was created: 
Professional Development - increasing knowledge and capabilities related to managing the data produced, used or re-used, curated and/or archived.
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Lesson - detailed description of an element of instruction in a course, [could be] contained in a unit of one or more lessons, and used by a teacher to guide class instruction. Example: presentation slides on a topic.
Target Audience - intended audience for which the learning resource was created: 
Data manager
Data professional
Early-career research scientist
Graduate student
Research faculty
Undergraduate student
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Up to 1 hour