Jul 23, 2018  –  Jul 25, 2018  |  Lima

Computational Tools for Interdisciplinary Research — Catalyst Workshop, Lima, Perú

Catalyst Jose Manuel Magallanes will hold a short course at the  School of Governement on using various computational tools for carrying out reproducible research in interdisciplinary teams.

Dates: July 23-25, 2018
Time:6 pm -10 pm each day

This course will present the various tools available that support the automization, reproduction, sharing, auditing, and preservation of collaborative research. The intended audience is students who have completed research methods courses and, preferably, have a research project. The course emphasizes the use of programs for processing statistical data.

Participants will:

• Learn how to use R and Python with a replicability approach;
• Adequately organize their data, code, bibliographical references, graphics, and text in online repositories;
• Facilitate the automization and reproducibility of their code;
• Produce documentation in PDF or HTML formats;
• Learn how to share their work using GitHub;
• Learn how to customize work templates using LaTeX.