Each week (or every so often) Fischer Group members get together to review someone’s code. This gives people a chance to ask for help/advise/totallyWickedProTips and the sanity of normally non-existant code peer review. Outside people looking to join, please do! Feel free to sign up for open weeks (listed below) by email sjbrey (at) rams.colostate.edu. These […]
Its finally happening! Scientists and the journals they publish in are starting to see the value in well documented human readable code! Below is an article in nature written by Helen Shen, it outlines the benefits of using coding notebooks. I will highlight the findings here but would encourage people to read the article in its entirety. Interactive […]
There is no better resource for getting started. Learning Statistics with R By Dan Navarro http://health.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/ccs/docs/lsr/lsr-0.5.pdf Part 1: Background Chapter 1: Why do we learn statistics? Psychology and statistics. Statistics in everyday life. Some examples where intuition is misleading, and statistics is critical. Chapter 2: A brief introduction to research design Basics of psychological measurement. […]
Awesome video series explaining version control and why academics should use it! The first video in the series can be found here. Git is an even more powerful version control tool than subversion. This post will will act as a resource for getting started with Git by providing instructions and links to tutorials. To run gitk on macs, download […]
This paper is so useful and so well written I thought it might be a good idea to have it no further than a click away. This quick and easy read outlines some really simple and applicable tips for writing better code. I thought I would include this on the site because writing better code […]
Sometimes it feels more productive to trudge through medial clean up tasks than it does to step back and assess the utility of your project’s code and knowledge base’s organizational scheme. Never thought about how to organize a project’s code base? Is knowledge base a strange concept, something probably taken care of by the absurd […]