This list of data planning issues is a good tool for systematically evaluating your data management plan draft to ensure that it addresses important issues.
This booklet addresses preferred file formats for preservation of various types of data (images, text, geospatial data, etc.), best practices for quality control, version control, storage, migration, security, anonymization, copyright, and access.
This article provides practical advice for beginners about the technical details of managing tabular data, such as hardware and software formats, and file naming.
Background Informtion
Finding background information for your topic is key. Here are some things you should consider and places to go, when gathering background information. Look at:
This database provides access to a repository of standardized and structured statistical data. Through a single platform, users can search and browse 25 billion data points in over 4.3 billion datasets sourced from over 70 authoritative government and private sources.
Select the Direct Access option to access PrivCo. Financial data on private U.S. companies, M&A deals, VC funding deals and private market investing and investors.
Provides statistics on crime trends, homicide trends and characteristics, law enforcement management and administrative details, and lists of prosecutors' offices.
Includes FastStats by topic and full text of many of the statistical publications the NCHS produces (e.g., Vital and Health Statistics Series reports).
This database provides news plus detailed economic & political information for almost 200 countries. It is continuously updated.
The country reviews include historical and political information, economic overviews, five years of hard data for key economic sectors, detailed maps, environmental conditions, investment information, etc.