“Data! data! data!” he cried impatiently. “I can’t make bricks without clay.”

Sherlock Holmes (PBS Series, 2010-2017)

Reproducibility and Replicability in Science (2019)

 The report provides recommendations to researchers, academic institutions, journals, and funders on steps they can take to improve reproducibility and replicability in science.

Conceptualizing a US Research Software Sustainability Institute 

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urssi.us

 URSSI mission

To improve the quality, usefulness, and sustainability of research software by improving practices, and increasing diversity of practitioners

ropensci.org  @ropensci

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rOpenSci fosters a culture that values open and reproducible research using shared data and reusable software.

pip install <software>

pip install data?

How do we make research data more easily accessible alongside compute?

The extent to which software would actually build with reasonable effort was quite low

Collberg et al 2014​

< 20%

Code + Computing environment + Data

Minimally reproducible computational research

It's important to isolate the computing environment so that changes in software dependencies don't break your analysis.

doi:10.1038/nbt.3780

Binder

Binder is an open source project that is designed to make it really easy to share analyses that are in notebooks.

mybinder.org

Binder

mybinder.org

Thank you for creating this. I've been wanting to try Binder for awhile and holepunch makes it a lot more accessible to me.

Without ever having committed or pushed anything to GitHub before, I was able to get your binder-test example working here.