Messy data

Tidying messy Excel data (Introduction)

Personal expressiveness, or how data is stored in a spreadsheet When you get data from a broad research community, the variability in how that data is formatted and stored is truly astonishing. Of course there are the standardized formats that are output from machines, like Next Generation Sequencing and other automated systems. That is a saving grace! But for smaller data, or data collected in the lab, the possibilities are truly endless!