This is a guide for anyone who needs to share data with a statistician or data scientist. The target audiences I have in mind are:
- Collaborators who need statisticians or data scientists to analyze data for them
- Students or postdocs in various disciplines looking for consulting advice
- Junior statistics students whose job it is to collate/clean/wrangle data sets
The goals of this guide are to provide some instruction on the best way to share data to avoid the most common pitfalls