This is a minimal tutorial to get you started. There are lots of other resources.

• Leek Group guide to data sharing
• Data Carpentry lesson on using spreadsheets
• Releasing statistics in spreadsheets (pdf), by UK Government Statistical Service
• Hadley Wickham’s paper on tidy data
• Video of Hadley Wickham talking about tidy data
• EP White et al. (2013) Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data. Ideas Ecol Evol 6:1-10