Instructor
Robin Lovelace (University of Leeds) & Juan Fonseca-Zamora (University of Leeds)
Learning objectives
- Be able to share reproducible code for more scientific and transparent transport research
- To be confident reproducing your own work and that of others
- To become skilled at using Git and GitHub to manage versions of your code and collaborate with others
- To be able to write reproducible content that can be exported to a variety of formats with the Quarto system for scientific publishing
- To understand how Quarto extensions can be used as a basis for creating publication-ready papers
- To be aware of ‘continuous integration’ and ‘GitHub Actions’ and how they can be used to ensure reproducibility, share your work, and save time
- Understanding of best practices around code sharing and collaboration for reproducible research in transport planning
Preliminary Schedule Day 1 (8 Sept.)
| Introduction |
| Development environments, system commands, and version control |
| Sharing code and data |
| Lunch |
| Reproducible papers and documentation with Quarto |
| Cross-references and citations with Quarto |
Preliminary Schedule Day 2 (9 Sept.)
| Drafting a reproducible paper |
| Generating reproducible publication-quality visualisations |
| Lunch |
| Editing other people’s work |
| Working on papers |
| Presentations and wrap-up |