GEOG 712 / Reproducible Research Workflow with GitHub and R

3 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): Participants are expected to have some prior data analysis and modelling experience.

Scientific discovery is a collective process that builds on the trust developed for published research. To ensure that research is reliable and to facilitate the use of methods and results by others, researchers are expected to provide enough information to allow their work to be replicated. As well, increased interest in open research to spur collaboration and reuse, is dependent on adequate documentation. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of reproducible research and tools to support it. Students will develop Data Management Plans, document data and code, and produce all elements of a unit of reproducible research. The main tools will be R (open source statistical computing language) and GitHub, a versioning platform.

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