The Data Management Workbook Practical Exercises for Better Organization, Storage and Use of Your Research Data

"The Data Management Workbook is packed full of useful advice and exercises to plan research data management in any type of empirical research. I can see it being a very useful resource for researchers, and for those that support them such as research data librarians and data stewards. It's concise, readable, practical, and highly relatable."
– Andrew Cox, author of Exploring Research Data Management

"As a researcher wanting to better manage your data, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by not knowing where to start or how to organize plans into manageable tasks. With The Data Management Workbook, Kristin has broken down common data management needs into a set of tasks that any team can work through to accomplish their data management goals. Through a series of exercises that include checklists, templates, examples, and procedures, this book will help you successfully get yourself, your team, and your project organized in order to have more usable data."
– Crystal Lewis, author of Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research

"Kristin Briney's newest publication offers a practical guide to implementing the core principles of data management. The goal of data management is to make implicit assumptions explicit. Briney's exercises provide guidance for articulating the critical and foundational work that is often assumed, and she does so in a lively and accessible manner. In addition to guiding researchers and librarians, this workbook, combined with her first book, Data Management for Researchers, could serve as a basis for a graduate-level course on data management."
– Lynda Kellam, author of Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice

"The Data Management Workbook is perfect for students and early career researchers who are short on time. Its straightforward, easy-to-understand exercises allow researchers in any field, at any level of expertise, to learn how to manage their data efficiently and effectively."
– Julia Bauder author of Teaching Research Data Management

"A great book that covers why data management matters, but more importantly, also offers hands-on practice exercises to help you improve how you save, document and interact with your own data. It would be an excellent book for labs to go through together to build skills and pipelines that work for the entire team."
– Kate Laskowski, Associate Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis

"Most researchers will acknowledge that data management is important, but it’s the details and the daily practices that trip them up. The Data Management Workbook takes us from knowing to doing and provides concrete exercises to build the habits, practices and skills we need to better preserve, document and store our note, data and analyses at all steps in the research process. I can’t wait to use this in my lab!"
– Christie Bahlai, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Kent State University