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Documenting your datasets

Once you have created a dataset and added your files to it, you can make it easier to find and more useful to others by describing, or documenting it. Documenting consists of creating the metadata for your dataset and helps others to trust your data and work. Searches on data.world also look at titles, descriptions, summary, and tags to match search strings so the more completely you describe your data the more chance it has of being found.

To document your dataset:

  1. While creating a dataset: add summary, tags, description to datasets, or add them later.Starting a dataset

  2. Set the data dictionary. This includes: