Research Software Engineering at Sheffield
Mike Croucher
EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow
www.walkingrandomly.com@walkingrandomly
M.Croucher@Sheffield.ac.uk
Sheffield Open Data Science Initiative
Research Software Engineering at Sheffield
Imagine...
Your results are amazing!
but wrong
We have a problem!
Croucher's law
I can be an idiot and WILL make mistakes.
You are no different!
Your Analysis?
What you did
Open package foo. Click, Click, drag, Click, Click, Click, Right-Click, Save, 'results.csv'.
Load into Excel. Click, drag, generate graph, right click, save, 'pretty-graph.png'
Your Analysis?
What you said
I analysed my data in foo using the bar analysis. Here's a graph of the results.
How reproducible is a mouse click?
Steps to reproducibility
- Automation (learn to program)
- Write code in a (very) high-level language
- Get some training
- Use version control
- Get a code buddy (Maybe an RSE!)
- Share your code and data openly
- Write tests
Want help?
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