Introduction/Overview

In addition to documenting and organizing your data and analyses, you should choose names for files, directories, and variables that are self-documenting and consistent. This will facilitate automation and reduce mistakes. This lesson provides and explains specific principles for naming files and directories.

Topics in standardized naming

Informative
Short
Unique
General-to-specific
Absolute, not relative
Correct sorting
zero padding
avoid spaces!
avoid initial numbers
subject numbers should be stings, not numbers
names should be self-documenting

Slide summarizing standardized naming topics as listed in the above info panel.

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