7.5 Extras

Here are some ideas for you to add to the projects in this chapter.

7.5.1 Markdown cells with dates and data source information

A minor feature of an inspection notebook is some identification of the date, time, and source of the data. It’s sometimes clear from the context what the data source is; there may, for example, be an obvious path to the data.

However, in many cases, it’s not perfectly clear what file is being inspected or how it was acquired. As a general solution, any processing application should produce a log. In some cases, a metadata file can include the details of the processing steps.

This additional metadata on the source and processing steps can be helpful when reviewing a data inspection notebook or sharing a preliminary inspection of data with others. In many cases, this extra data is pasted into ordinary markdown cells. In other cases, this data may be the result of scanning a log file for key INFO lines that summarize processing.

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