diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 033c5c4..5a596d1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ This repository consists of two key pieces:
 ### Scripts and Examples
 
 See `tests/test_tabularize_integration.py` for an example of the end-to-end pipeline being run on synthetic data. This
-script is a functional test that is also run with `pytest` to verify correctness of the algorithm.
-
+script is a functional test that is also run with `pytest` to verify the correctness of the algorithm.
 #### Core Scripts:
 
 1. `scripts/tabularize/identify_columns.py` loads all training shard to identify which feature columns
diff --git a/scripts/hf_cohort_e2e.sh b/scripts/hf_cohort_e2e.sh
index 2fbc235..3c39ea5 100644
--- a/scripts/hf_cohort_e2e.sh
+++ b/scripts/hf_cohort_e2e.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ rm -rf $OUTPUT_DIR
 POLARS_MAX_THREADS=32 python scripts/identify_columns.py \
     MEDS_cohort_dir=$MEDS_DIR \
     tabularized_data_dir=$OUTPUT_DIR \
-    min_code_inclusion_frequency=1 $WINDOW_SIZES do_overwrite=False $AGGS
+    min_code_inclusion_frequency=1 "$WINDOW_SIZES" do_overwrite=False "$AGGS"
 
 echo "Running tabularize_static.py: tabularizing static data"
 POLARS_MAX_THREADS=32 python scripts/tabularize_static.py \
diff --git a/scripts/hf_cohort_shard.sh b/scripts/hf_cohort_shard.sh
index f30878e..351ef3f 100644
--- a/scripts/hf_cohort_shard.sh
+++ b/scripts/hf_cohort_shard.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 OUTPUT_DIR=/data/storage/shared/meds_tabular_ml/ebcl_dataset/processed
 PATIENTS_PER_SHARD="2500"
 CHUNKSIZE="200_000_000"
diff --git a/src/MEDS_tabular_automl/utils.py b/src/MEDS_tabular_automl/utils.py
index ef3c016..538db88 100644
--- a/src/MEDS_tabular_automl/utils.py
+++ b/src/MEDS_tabular_automl/utils.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def get_static_col_dtype(col: str) -> pl.DataType:
         case "count" | "has_values_count":
             return pl.UInt32
         case _:
-            raise ValueError(f"Column name {col} malformed!")
+            raise ValueError(f"Column name {col} malformed! Expected aggregations: 'sum', 'sum_sqd', 'min', 'max', 'value', 'first', 'present', 'count', 'has_values_count'.")
 
 
 def add_static_missing_cols(
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ def setup_environment(cfg: DictConfig, load_data: bool = True):
     logger.info(f"Stored config: {stored_config}")
     logger.info(f"Worker config: {cfg}")
     assert cfg.keys() == stored_config.keys(), (
-        f"Keys in stored config do not match current config.")``
+        f"Keys in stored config do not match current config.")
     for key in cfg.keys():
         assert key in stored_config, f"Key {key} not found in stored config."
         if key == "worker":