Literate Data Analysis

Germán Rodríguez

1 June 2017

Donald Knuth (1984) is a strong believer in documenting computer programs and originated the term literate programming. This concept is even more important in data analysis, where documenting each step in data collection, processing and analysis is crucial (see Leisch 2002; Rossini 2001).

References

Knuth, Donald. 1984. “Literate Programming.” The Computer Journal 27 (2): 97–111.
Leisch, F. 2002. “Sweave: Dynamic Generation of Statistical Reports Using Literate Data Analysis.” In Compstat 2002. Proceedings in Computational Statistics, edited by Wolfgang Härdle and Bernd Rönz, 575–80. Physika Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
Rossini, A. J. 2001. “Literate Statistical Practice.” In DSC 2001. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing, edited by K. Hornick and F. Leisch. http://www.R-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001.