Reproducible research through reusable code
Start Date
3 Apr 2025
Start Time
09:30 Europe/Amsterdam
Location
Rotterdam
End Date
3 Apr 2025
End Time
17:00 Europe/Amsterdam
The workshop will take place at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the exact building and room are unknown yet. Please note that lunch and drinks at the end of the workshop are included.
This workshop teaches you the skills to make your code reusable by others. You will practice these skills by directly applying them to your own project. Inevitably, this will make your research more reproducible.
You should bring your own coding project to the workshop that you would like to make reusable and share with others.
The workshop is based on the teaching style of the Carpentries, and learners will follow along while the instructors write the code on screen. More information can be found on the workshop website.
Cancellation
If you register for the workshop we count on you being there. If you are not able to attend the workshop, please cancel your registration so we can give a spot to someone on the waiting list.
Audience
This workshop is aimed at researchers who want to make their code reusable. You are able to write basic code in a programming language like R or Python. This can be a few simple lines of code or a larger piece of software.
The workshop is aimed at PhD candidates and other researchers or research software engineers affiliated with Dutch research institutions. We do not accept registrations by Master students.
Syllabus
- Why is reproducibility important?
- How do I share my code with others using GitHub?
- What is the minimal documentation required for others to be able to run my code?
- Writing a good README file
- Dealing with dependencies
- What makes code readable and reusable?
- Code conventions and modular coding
Preliminary schedule
- 09:30 Welcome & icebreaker
- 09:45 Workshop introduction: why is reproducibility important?
- 10:00 Uploading a coding project to GitHub
- 10:30 Break
- 10:40 Software dependencies
- 11:00 Software documentation
- 11:30 Break
- 11:40 Code conventions and modular coding
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 Next steps: how to make your code reusable?
- 13:45 Work on your own project
- 15:30 Reusability check
- 16:15 Wrap-up
- 16:30 END
You can find more information about the workshop on the workshop website.
Organizers
This workshop is jointly organized by Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Netherlands eScience Center.