Acknowledgements

This book came to me at a moment when I was looking for a new big project. I was washing my hands and BAM! the idea for this book erupted in my head, fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus. Prior to writing the Workbook, I had created several data management handouts and worksheets to use in lectures and workshops. My big idea was to expand my worksheet offerings to cover the entire data management lifecycle. Basically, I wanted a workbook of activities to pull from for any data management lesson I taught. The result is this Workbook.

Books are never truly written by only one person. While I did the majority of the labor for this Workbook, it would not have been as helpful, accurate, or complete without the assistance of several people.

First, thank you to several people at Caltech Library for assistance with this book. Thank you Donna Wrublewski for being on board with this big idea and supporting it. Big thanks to Tom Morrell for critical feedback on the beta edition of this book, particularly on the storage exercise which was really terrible before his feedback. Thank you Tommy Keswick for helping move my bookdown repo to the Caltech Library GitHub account and for showing me the magic that is GitHub Pages. Thank you to George Porter for helping to get the Workbook online into CaltechAUTHORS, even though we were not quite finished migrating that giant repository to its new platform.

Thank you to Abigail Goben and Dorothea Salo for always being encouraging when I come to them with the idea for a new book, no matter the idea. Abigail was one of the first people I discussed the idea for this book with, which helped cement the big idea in my head.

Thank you to Rachel Woodbrook for feedback on the accessible spreadsheets exercise.

Finally, thank you to Andy for being calm when I had the idea for yet another book. It helped that this book was much shorter than my last two. And thank you to Hank and Willa for cuddles, questions, and all of our adventures that keep me grounded.