Week 7 - Metadata for the clean snow cover dataset

Please use Canvas to return the assignments: https://ucsb.instructure.com/courses/26293/assignments/363088

Use your week 2 assignment when you cleaned the snow cover dataset (or this version here)

Instructions:

• Follow the instructions below to write the metadata for the cleaned version of the snow cover table (the one you write at the end of your cleaning script) and add this information to the README.md of your repository used for week2 (or start a new one if you prefer)
• You can reuse some of the original metadata
• Be sure to adapt the metadata for the columns you modified during your data cleaning
• Ensure that you describe how missing data was handled
• Upload your README.md to Canvas

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List: <list all files (or folders, as appropriate for dataset 
organization) contained in the dataset, with a brief description of their content>

2. Relationship between files, if important:

3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current
data package:

4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? 


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR:

For the file  data/processed/all_cover_fixed_YOURNAME.csv : 

1. Number of variables:

2. Number of cases/rows:

3. Variable List: <list variable name(s), description(s), unit(s)and value 
labels as appropriate for each>

4. Missing data codes: <list code/symbol and definition>

5. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used:

SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:

3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:

4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: <any supplementary data sources 
that support analysis or classification of the datasets, eg., plant taxonomy table.)>

5. Was data derived from another source? If yes, list source(s): <list citations 
to original sources>

6. Recommended citation for the project:

Credit: 50 points