This in-person workshop will demystify the command line and get you started using Bash and Bash scripting. Warning: You might find that working in the command line is actually really fun and addictive! Prerequisites: None Location: Walter C. Koerner Library, Research Commons' Presentation Room (548/552) Software installation: If your laptop runs Mac or Linux, you […]

Which file format should you use when saving your research dataset? Besides the obvious question of how to encode your data structures in a file, you might also want to consider portability (the ability to write/read data across different operating systems and different programming languages and libraries), the inclusion of metadata (data description), I/O bandwidth […]

This in-person workshop will show you how to easily create beautiful scientific documents (html, pdf, websites, books…)—complete with formatted text, dynamic code, and figures. We will first cover the simple and ubiquitous markdown syntax, then introduce you to Quarto (https://quarto.org/), an open-source tool combining the powers of Jupyter and Pandoc to turn your text and […]

Abstract: What is the point of creating all these commits if you are unable to make use of them because you can't find the information you need in them? In this workshop, we will learn how to search your files at any of their versions and search your commits logs. By the end of the […]

Abstract: While Git is a fantastic tool for version control of software, written content and other collections of small files, it can become unmanageable for large, multi-GB data files. Over the years several different Git extensions that reduce the impact of large files in your Git repository were developed, e.g. git-annex and Git LSF. DataLad […]