Documentation is one of those boring important things.

It helps you:

• Keep track of what worked and what didn't
• Remember what you did in the past
• Figure out future work
• Clarify your process
• Develop your writing
• Be consistent

It helps other people:

• Understand what you did and how you did it
• Learn from your example
• Replicate/reproduce your project
• It helps other people. Full stop.

Best practices

• Keep it simple
• Use a text file
• Conventionally, named README.txt
• Markdown!
• Include screenshots when appropriate.

Let's find docs for

• Voyant
• Topic Modeling Tool
• Lexos

Activity 4

Pep talk

Unit 1 assignments

• data
  • data assessment activity
  • list of cleanup tasks (regex)
  • zipped with data subset if applicable
• results
  
• visualization

Unit 1 assignments

• documentation of task
• reflection
• 2 blog posts