Introduction

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.

Goals To expose you to current expectations related to organizing, sharing and documenting research projects.

Learning Objectives This lesson contributes to the objective to "organize a research project" by explaining how to "apply standardized naming best practices".

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.

Informatics 2 (5 pts): Naming