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 1. Make a local copy of this repository by either cloning or downloading it.
 
-2. Download the processed [data](https://doi.org/10.6075/J0C829GC), untar the files, and move all directories to `data` in the project root. After doing so, your directory tree should look like this:
+2. Download the processed [data](https://doi.org/10.6075/J0C829GC), unzip the files, and move all directories to `data` in the project root. After doing so, your directory tree should look like this:
 
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 WaveSpectrum/