8-9th Sept. | Tools and Skills for Reproducible Transport Research

Instructor

Robin Lovelace (University of Leeds) & Juan Fonseca-Zamora (University of Leeds)

Location

Room 2.1

Course materials

See tdscience.github.io/course for all the course materials.

Learning objectives

  1. Be able to share reproducible code for more scientific and transparent transport research
  2. To be confident reproducing your own work and that of others
  3. To become skilled at using Git and GitHub to manage versions of your code and collaborate with others
  4. To be able to write reproducible content that can be exported to a variety of formats with the Quarto system for scientific publishing
  5. To understand how Quarto extensions can be used as a basis for creating publication-ready papers
  6. To be aware of ‘continuous integration’ and ‘GitHub Actions’ and how they can be used to ensure reproducibility, share your work, and save time
  7. Understanding of best practices around code sharing and collaboration for reproducible research in transport planning

Schedule Day 1 (8 Sept.)

9:30 Introduction
Development environments, system commands, and version control
Sharing code and data
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Free time
13:30 Reproducible papers and documentation with Quarto
Cross-references and citations with Quarto

Schedule Day 2 (9 Sept.)

09:30 Drafting a reproducible paper
Generating reproducible publication-quality visualisations
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Free time
13:30 Editing other people’s work
Working on papers
Presentations and wrap-up