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10 fun facts about my paper with @kara_woo on Data Organization in Spreadsheets https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989
1. The paper never would have happened without @JennyBryan's repeated arm twisting. She suggested the collaboration with @kara_woo.
2. The best (and first) sentence in the paper was all @kara_woo, "Spreadsheets, for all of their mundane rectangularness, have been the subject of angst and controversy for decades."
3. It's the 3rd most downloaded paper at The American Statistician, after two papers about p-values.
4. We paid $2950 to make the paper #OpenAccess, even though it was already freely available as a PeerJ Preprint https://peerj.com/preprints/3183/
5. The paper developed from a website, and was basically a rant about a specific collaborator's data files. https://kbroman.org/dataorg
6. The first thing I did, before writing any of the text, was to write an R function to make Excel-like figures, so I wouldn't have to take screen shots of Excel. https://github.com/kbroman/broman/blob/master/R/excel_fig.R
7. The paper included a dialogue between @KasperDHansen and @jtleek, as told by @rdpeng, on their favorite transcription factor, Oct-4, but the editor at The American Statistician made us cut it out. https://twitter.com/rdpeng/status/622067081748463616
8. The paper is part of a great series of articles on data science, instigated by @JennyBryan and @HadleyWickham https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utas20/72/1?nav=tocList https://peerj.com/collections/50-practicaldatascistats/
9. The series includes a cool paper by @hspter that's available only with the preprints https://peerj.com/preprints/3210/
10. I first met @kara_woo at the Baltimore Ballet. We danced together in the Nutcracker in 2004. We met again on twitter via @hspter and @_inundata.
