Tools for Open Science



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from IPython.display import display, Image, HTML
from talktools import website, nbviewer

What is open science?

Version control systems promote good software engineering practices
In the last few years, Git has emerged as one the best in class
GitHub has completely transformed collaborative software development
- Contributions to open source projects have exploded as a result
- Makes software development deeply social: "Facebook for coders"
Public repositories are free
- Encourages open collaboration
- All code, history, discussions are public
- Some scientists are uncomfortable with this
- The benefits outweight any downsides
- Most contributions are peer reviewed!
You can have private repositories, but they cost $
Here is IPython's GitHub repo

Version control systems are not the final answer to reproducibility, but they are a necessary beginning
Developer behavior changes when they know that everything they do is public
- Their reputation is on the line - employers routinely consult GitHub profiles
- Documentation and tests magically appear ;-)
A case study with an undergraduate physics major
- Zach Sailer graduated from Cal Poly in 2013 with a physics B.S., currently in Ph.D program in Chemistry at the University of OR.
- He did his senior project on "Dielectric Behavior of de Vries Liquid Crystals"
- "Hey you should post your senior project on GitHub"
- Reproducibility magically follows...
- Here is his GitHub repo

Manage your research in the cloud and control who you share it with or make it publicly available and citable

Impactstory is a place to learn and share all the ways your research is making a difference

An example of open peer review: