Data Cleaning Week has begun – check out the cleaning challenges and choose your own!

Are you having problems with data that has accumulated on your hard drive? Does your folder structure or file naming system need updating? Data Cleaning Week 16–20 December aims to draw attention to good data management routines and its benefits. In this blog article, you can read about UH staff’s data cleaning challenges and consider what your own challenge might be. All UH researchers, staff members and students can participate in the Data Cleaning Week on Twitter by using the hashtag #5sdata.

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Data Support challenges University of Helsinki researchers, staff and students to participate in data cleaning – here’s how!

University of Helsinki Data Support challenges all UH researchers, staff and students to participate in Data Cleaning Week during 16th to 20th of December. During the week researchers are urged to go through their data files and storages, and clean up directories and folders, name files wisely and destroy unnecessary data. 5S method provides ideas for data cleaning.

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Is your data safely stored? Aleksi Husso’s Data Cleaning Week challenge

University of Helsinki researcher Aleksi Husso is challenging all doctoral students at the University of Helsinki to check the efficiency and security of their data management routines during the Data Cleaning Week. UH Data Support’s Data Cleaning Week will be held from 16th to 20th December 2019.

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How do I use 5S method for organizing data files?

To improve your work efficiency, it is good to have a clear data management strategy and data files well organized. On this blog post we have gathered tips on how to organize files based on a 5S method. Data Cleaning Week 2019 challenges University of Helsinki researchers, as well as staff and students, to check their data management routines and organize data files.

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Delete unnecessary versions of data, release some space – Bess Hardwick’s Data Cleaning Week challenge

University of Helsinki’s information systems specialist Bess Hardwick challenges herself and REC research centre team to join Data Cleaning Week by deleting unnecessary versions of data and releasing space on computers. UH Data Support’s Data Cleaning Week will be held from 16th to 20th December 2019.

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”I go through all my data and remove unnecessary duplicates” – Sanja Hakala’s Data Cleaning Week challenge

University of Helsinki researcher Sanja Hakala challenges herself and all her fellow PhD researchers to join Data Cleaning Week by checking out their data management practices. UH Data Support’s Data Cleaning Week will be held from 16th to 20th December 2019.

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Why is Data Cleaning Week organized?

The Data Cleaning Week at the University of Helsinki aims to draw attention to good data management routines and its benefits. This also supports the University of Helsinki’s strategic goals in terms of research quality and open and responsible science. All UH researchers, staff members and students can participate in the Data Cleaning Week on Twitter by using the hashtag #5sdata.

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