This week Emma Rand gave a talk and live demo on making packages in R. The talk covers motivation for why you might want to make a package in the first place and the live demo went through all the steps of creating a basic package and getting it up...
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Speeding up Python
In this talk, Liam Pattinson discussed why Python runs so slowly compared to other languages, how to identify performance bottlenecks, and how to optimise our Python code. The talk covered the use of profilers, how to get the most out of pure Python, how NumPy works, and how to write...
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Introduction to Version Control with Git and GitHub
This week, we had our annual introduction to version control using Git
and GitHub. Version control is one of the foundational tools of
software development, whether you’re writing small analysis scripts
for your own experiments, or large HPC simulations with lots of
collaborators.
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The FAIR Principles for Data and Software
The FAIR principles are a set of guidelines for optimising the reuse of research data
and software. Adopting them in our research can improve the visibility, efficiency, and
impact of our work, in addition to aiding reproducibility and promoting open science
practices.
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Rust for Reproducible Research
Alastair made the case for Rust as a language choice for reproducible computational research, contrasting it with popular languages and exemplifying some of the language features that can help researchers to write safe, robust, reusable code.
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