Hi, > Emily Jane asked a good question about what are the other options, aside from > Excel, Libre Office, or text editors as a means for data entry. > > Forms, whose output can later be accessed as tabular data (e.g., CSV), are a > solution I have used and liked. Proprietary database software, such as > Filemaker Pro exists, and from my experience, is fairly user friendly. For > open > source options, I would use Google forms, or if you want an option that > doesn’t > have to be hosted on the web, you could try out Dean Attali’s shinyforms R > package (works, but is still under development) [1]. > > I especially like forms for data entry, as you can more easily constrain how > the data gets entered (predefined columns, drop-down menus with limited > options, etc), compared to the free-for-all that exists with a spreadsheet. > > I’d love to hear other’s favourite tools and opinions on this topic.
I also like to use forms. Something that I'm using now is validity of cell contents on LibreOffice, https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Validity_of_Cell_Contents, but I need to keep my data on LibreOffice format rather than CSV. Raniere _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
