Time: 2018-04-04, 9:00 - 12:00
Place: Tiedekulma (Yliopistonkatu 4), meeting room L
Instructor: Joona Lehtomäki
- Data management planning
- Best practices for organizing your code and data
- The concept of tidy data for tabular data
- Version control
Managing the digital assets - most notably code and data - created in your research process are valuable outputs in their own right. Sharing these assets is a corner stone of good research practice and thus increasingly supported by universities and research groups as well as required by research funders. More obviously, managing your digital research assets in a smart way makes your own day-to-day life much easier! Unfortunately, data management, documenting your code and deciding where to store all of it can take time and resource. Worse still, there is usually more than one way of doing things and it far from obvious which path you should take.
The purpose of this workshop is to share experiences in some of the core topics of managing your digital research assets. Questions addressed include:
- What is data management planning and why should I care?
- How should I organize my code and data?
- What should I consider when wrangling data to safeguard my own and my colleagues' emotional well-being?
- What are the basic principles of version control?
The workshop will present a highly opinionated view on various approaches, services and tools. In other words, it will not be a comprehensive presentation of all the alternatives available, but rather pragmatic and battle-hardened experiences. Discussion, questions, objections and sharing your own experiences is highly encouraged!
Bring your own laptop for note taking and for sharing your own examples.
Instructions below adapted from Software Carpentry released under CC BY 4.0-license.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wm0u1LwYAGX8WAsWPw_xRe2LWJ96THPypxGQlMxxgiA/edit?usp=sharing