1. Reproducible Research
Jerod Weinman
CSC 499

2. Why make your research reproducible?

3. Reproducibility Spectrum
R. D. Peng, Science (2011).
Where will your work lie?

4. “[A] lack of visual clarity in arranging evidence is a sign of a lack of intellectual clarity in reasoning about evidence.” -- Edward Tufte Visual Explanations 48 (1997)

5. What are the barriers to making research reproducible? ?

6. Reproducible Research Principles
Modularize
Document
Preserve

7. Reproducible Research Pipeline
Modularity: Each component’s “semipersistent state allows for the inspection of the component and the process that led to it.” (Peng and Eckel 2009, p. 29)
Authors vs. readers: Need different tools.
R. D. Peng, S. P. Eckel, Comput. Sci. Eng (2009).

8. Data Repository $DATA_REPOSITORY/ raw/ proc/ experiments/ svn/
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$DATA_REPOSITORY/
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collection/data/
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Modularity: Each component’s “semipersistent state allows for the inspection of the component and the process that led to it.” (Peng and Eckel 2009, p. 29)
Authors vs. readers: Need different tools.
svn/
collection/src/
svn/
collection/src/
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collection/src/
R. D. Peng, S. P. Eckel, Comput. Sci. Eng (2009).