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Howdy all, I'm working on a book aimed at librarians newer to data manipulation/analysis who need help wrapping their minds around a few core concepts and tools already on their desktop computer (Mac, Windows, Linux) they need to solve real world problems. If there are data problems you'd like to see addressed, I hope you'll consider sharing your ideas through the form at https://goo.gl/forms/gsLrrt9G2vtKRRCh1 If your idea is used, your name will be listed in the acknowledgements section. The problem can be anything and you can submit as many as you like. Examples that will be there include identifying and removing duplicates in fields or records in a file or across a series of file, fixing delimited files that contain line breaks, converting dates from inconsistent format, using an API to retrieve or update records in, combining information scattered across multiple files, and converting data from one format to another. To be clear, this is not a programming book -- there are plenty of good ones already. To keep things digestible, the book presents only basic/useful stuff and helps people recognize what they don't need to know. If data were a country you were visiting where you didn't speak the language, this would be the phrasebook you'd use to help navigate various situations. Sorry for the long email, and thanks in advance for your ideas. Feel free to forward this message anywhere you think people would like to see it. kyle