What? - A hackathon event focusing on reproducibility in computational research. To be led by the Imperial College Research Software Engineering (RSE) Team.
When? - Wednesday 2nd December 2020, 10:00-16:00
Where? - Online of course! Don't you follow the news? We'll be using Microsoft Teams.
Who? - You!
Questions? - Email c.cave-ayland@imperial.ac.uk with questions big or small.
If you're already signed up, see our participation page.
Computational researchers at Imperial, with any level of experience or expertise. Anybody with an interest in learning about reproducibility, be it picking up new tools and techniques, sharing tips and tricks, or just after some dedicated time to level-up a project.
This particular event is primarily being advertised within Chemistry to try and tap into an existing coherent community and to try and raise awareness of the activities of the Research Software Engineering team. It is by no means meant to exclude participants from other areas however, so please feel free to sign up. We hope to repeat this format of event targeting other areas.
How to improve reproducibility in scientific practice remains a hot topic and was highlighted as being of particular interest in our recent survey of the College. Key challenges in this area were highlighted in a recent Nature article and there are a number of grass roots movements dedicated to solutions (e.g. Reprohack, ReproducibiliTea, The Turing Way, Software Carpentry). We hope this workshop will provide a valuable opportunity for the Research Software Engineering team to share our expertise with the wider community.
The hackathon will be a fully hands-on event so please be prepared with a computer to work with. The system you use day to day is best. You're invited to bring along a project to work on (as an individual or a group) during event. This can be anything, from some scripts you have floating around for data analysis, up to a piece of software developed long-term by your group. If you don't have a particular project in mind then that's a problem. Come along prepared to learn about your reproducibility topic of choice or to pitch in on a group project. The aim is for all attendees to make concrete progress in improving the reproducibility of their work, irrespective of their level of expertise or maturity of their project.
We'll start with some scene setting on the topic at hand. Then we'll split into different groups based on people's projects/interests. Members of the College Research Software Engineering team will be on hand to provide advice, sources of information, and technical help throughout. The whole group will reconvene at regular intervals to share updates and experiences.
We'll be using Microsoft Teams to run the session. Breakout rooms will facilitate focused group work. Please be prepared to share your screen and talk on camera to helpers from the RSE team and other participants.