The Ag Data Commons monthly webinar series originally presented "Making Data Machine-Readable" on April 24, 2018.
Topics covered include defining “Machine-Readable”, why machine-readable data is important, reviewed preferred data formats and the Tidy Data principles, and walked through a sample of converting tabular data to be machine-readable.
Find the Ag Data Commons at https://data.nal.usda.gov/
Links included in this webinar:
Open Data Handbook – File Formats: http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/appendices/file-formats/
Tidy Data Paper: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf
Ag Data Commons dataset used as a demo for formatting data: http://dx.doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1411953
Ag Data Commons dataset used as a sample for CSV data visualization: http://dx.doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1297868
