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Naming conventions

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- First I'm going to describe data set naming conventions because each time you make a new data set, you don't want to lose track of what you were doing. I will also describe how you should split up code files and I'll give you some naming conventions for your code. As I said, first we'll talk about data set naming conventions, I start each data set with a short character prefix like BRFSS. You don't want a long one or you'll go crazy typing it. And you don't want one with numbers because that gets confusing, I make the first data set I read in have underscore a after it. And each time I remake the data set, I increment the letter so a to b, b to c and c to d. Why do I do that, well, well let's say you make a variable in c and later you use that variable to try make a new variable in d. And you realize that the c variable is messed up. I can roll back and try to figure this out. If the native variable that the variable c is based on is messed up in a then it means I read it in wrong…

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