bitss/newdelhi2017

BITSS Reproducibility Workshop, New Delhi March 2017

BITSS New Delhi Reproducibility Training

by Garret Christensen[1] and Julia Clark[2]

[1] UC Berkeley (Berkeley Initative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, Berkeley Institute for Data Science)

[2] UC San Diego

Materials for the February 2017 Reproducibility Training , New Delhi India

Installation Instructions

The workshop will introduce you to tools that can help you make your workflow more reproducible. You are required to install the following software programs before coming to the workshop for the hands-on exercises. (This takes a while, so please don't leave it to the last minute! It's OK if you run into difficulties; we'll be happy to help.)

Workshop Materials

The numbered files/directories will take you through the workshop in order.

1-Intro features a set of slides (Beamer/LaTeX slides rendered as PDF) that discuss the reproducibility crisis in the social sciences.

2-Reg-and-PAP is slides and activities on registration and pre-analysis plans.

3-Repro-Code is slides and activities on coding for reproducibility.

4-DataSharing-and-Rep is slides and activities on data de-identification, sharing, and replication.

5-VersionControl describes activities for using Git with the Github Desktop application and the Github website.

6-[fill in the blank] contains example files to run dynamic documents in both Stata and R.

Additional Materials:

X-Frontier is a set of slides on new opportunities (grants, workshops, etc.) in transparency.

X-Tools-Intro is a set of slides covering the software tools we'll discuss.

Workshop Agenda

March 16

Time	Session	Speaker
9:00	Welcome and introductions
9:30	Overview of transparency and reproducibility in social science research	Garret Christensen
10:45	TEA BREAK
11:00	Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans, AEA Registry and the OSF	Garret Christensen
12:00	LUNCH BREAK
1:00	Coding Reproducibly: Lessons Learned	Julia Clark & Garret Christensen
2:30	Data De-Identification & Sharing	Julia Clark
3:45	TEA BREAK
4:00	Replication & Data Sharing Activity	Julia Clark

March 17

Time	Session	Speaker
9:00	Version Control with Git + Github I	Garret Christensen
10:30	TEA BREAK
10:45	Version Control with Git + Github II	Garret Christensen
12:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30	Dynamic Documents using Stata	Garret Christensen
3:00	TEA BREAK
3:30	Dynamic Documents using R	Julia Clark