Yes, a million times yes. I'd like to emphasize the following points: (2), (3), (4) are all tied to the same idea: Your data will be parsed by a script, not by

Yes, a million times yes. I'd like to emphasize the following points: (2), (3), (4) are all tied to the same idea: Your data will be parsed by a script, not by me. I'm not going to use excel to analyse your data. I'm gonna import them into R/Python/... and then extract the features I'm interested in. I've been a graduate student in statistics for almost 2 years now, and when the data are correctly packaged, I've never had to use excel. (5) Come on, I know that nobody likes writing README's. Heck, I don't like it myself. But do you really expect me to guess what your two-letters variable name means? And please, make your readme searchable, and short. The cdc data comes with a 200 pages manual explaining what the data is, and finding what you're looking for is a nightmare..