lab report

a template for summarizing Data Lab experiments

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EXPERIMENT LABEL/TITLE

disambiguated, human-understandable label for experiment

TL;DR

• briefly state purpose of experiment, what question is being answered
• identify scope and result
• written for general audience, e.g., can be used for social media caption

-verbose

METHODS

• what we did to build the experiment
• what tools, data, languages, or other resources were used

CONCLUSIONS

what we learned

• summarize, add date for appended thoughts

further investigation

• things we could not figure out/tool limitations
• link to open GH Issues (if applicable)

Resources

where we looked for inspiration for this information assembly/template

GLAM* Labs

• Immersive Reality Lab for the Humanities - irlhumanities.org
• Library of Congress (LOC) Labs - labs.loc.gov
• metalab(at)harvard - metalabharvard.github.io
• New York Public Library (NYPL labs) - [site currently archived]
• Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute - semlab.io

Report templates

• Scientific Reports from The Writing Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Lab Report Template from Biology Corner
• Writing a Science lab report from Monash University