How to improve your relationship with your future self

This essay provides practical advice about how to do transparent and reproducible data analysis and writing. We note that doing research in this way today will not only improve the cumulation of knowledge within a discipline, but it will also improve the life of the researcher tomorrow. We organize...

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Autores principales: BOWERS,JAKE, VOORS,MAARTEN
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2016
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-090X20160003000112017-02-13How to improve your relationship with your future selfBOWERS,JAKEVOORS,MAARTEN research transparency reproducible research workflow methodology This essay provides practical advice about how to do transparent and reproducible data analysis and writing. We note that doing research in this way today will not only improve the cumulation of knowledge within a discipline, but it will also improve the life of the researcher tomorrow. We organize the argument around a series of homilies that lead to concrete actions. (1) Data analysis is computer programming. (2) No data analyst is an island for long. (3) The territory of data analysis requires maps. (4) Version control prevents clobbering, reconciles history, and helps organize work. (5) Testing minimizes error. (6) Work *can* be reproducible. (7) Research ought to be credible communication.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.36 n.3 20162016-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2016000300011en10.4067/S0718-090X2016000300011
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reproducible research
workflow
methodology
spellingShingle research transparency
reproducible research
workflow
methodology
BOWERS,JAKE
VOORS,MAARTEN
How to improve your relationship with your future self
description This essay provides practical advice about how to do transparent and reproducible data analysis and writing. We note that doing research in this way today will not only improve the cumulation of knowledge within a discipline, but it will also improve the life of the researcher tomorrow. We organize the argument around a series of homilies that lead to concrete actions. (1) Data analysis is computer programming. (2) No data analyst is an island for long. (3) The territory of data analysis requires maps. (4) Version control prevents clobbering, reconciles history, and helps organize work. (5) Testing minimizes error. (6) Work *can* be reproducible. (7) Research ought to be credible communication.
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