Literate Data Analysis

Donald Knuth [1] 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 [2], [3].

[1]

D. Knuth, “Literate programming,” The Computer Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 97–111, 1984.

[2]

F. Leisch, “Sweave: Dynamic generation of statistical reports using literate data analysis,” in Compstat 2002. Proceedings in computational statistics, 2002, pp. 575–580.

[3]

A. J. Rossini, “Literate statistical practice,” in DSC 2001. Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on distributed statistical computing, 2001. Available: http://www.R-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001

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