Week 2 - Modern Computational Environments

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To do before class

Some examples of new data sources and how they are being applied:

• “The Scientific Paper is obsolete” piece in The Atlantic, 2018.
• Reproducibility crisis and solutions piece in the Conversation, 2017.
• Short post on how Jupyter enabled the LIGO Nobel Prize, 2017.

Related readings

• Recent publication formalising good practices about computational notebook (Rule et al., 2019)

References

1. Rule, A., Birmingham, A., Zuniga, C., Altintas, I., Huang, S.-C., Knight, R., … others. (2019). Ten simple rules for writing and sharing computational analyses in Jupyter Notebooks. PLoS Comput Biol, 15(7). http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007007