bitss/worldbankfeb2017

Materials for Feb 2017 Reproducibility Workshop at the World Bank

worldbankfeb2017's Issues

Focus the curriculum on version control/github and its application to work

@garretchristensen :
I think the lesson learned from the April workshop is we covered too many topics in short time. Our current priority is to get the audience familiarized with GitHub and version control, so I'd not put emphasis on (or even take out) Stata + R contents.

I'd structure the workshop like this (not necessarily in this order):

Afternoon hands-on session

• Version control concept and benefits, GitHub as a platform
• How they can apply these into their work/research with specific examples
• Basic step-by-steps, create a repo and commit files, diff, etc.
• Hands-on session (edit a file together in each table group, etc) with helpers walking around
• Wrapping up & hearing participants' thoughts on how they can integrate this into their workflows.

Morning informational session

• Motivational lightning talks (we can arrange people for this)
• A session to introduce how to get started with GitHub account at the World Bank and introduce some of the projects going on at the Bank's organizational account. (I can do this)
• "GitHub for TTLs", focusing on collaboration aspect, for staffs mainly supervising RAs and technical developers for their projects. -> this could potentially be a parallel session in the afternoon. (I can do this)

Include Practice of Reproducible Research

The volume of case studies of reproducible workflows that I mentioned previously is now available.

Also, a modified lesson used in a Software Carpentry workshop on reproducible workflows may be useful.

Better time management

@garretchristensen it is your fault

rename the repo to Jan2017

because we couldn't deliver in Nov 2016 😿

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Great work with the workshop!

And, stay positive! No time management issue!!!!