From a raw spreadsheet to a published data package in a day
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On 22 July 2026 at 15:05, I made the first commit to a new repository. It held an empty R package and one Excel workbook with field data from a household waste study in Kampala, Uganda. Three minutes later I sent the first prompt to Claude Code:
I am building a new data package and received a dataset in…
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