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Decision documentation

Style guide

We use the Google style guide as our writing standard.

Pluralizing nodes in Data Commons

When describing a place or Place, be careful to distinguish between Data Commons Place objects and places that one might visit, and use the appropriate styling for each. Here are two sample sentences that illustrate the distinction:

Sarah loves travelling to many new places. Sarah should call the API by specifying DCIDs associated with the Place objects whose populations she wishes to measure.

When describing more than one Data Commons Class (for example, two Place objects or three instances of StatisticalVariable), do not pluralize them. Instead, use terminology like five Count measurements or eight Observation occurrences.