Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
All research relies on software
Forget about the big examples, it's the small stuff that matters day-to-day and that's why you're doing this course
Take something as simple as Excel... Rienhart and Rogoff
And we know how much
National survey indications
Then even more precise in Southampton survey
What does this mean?
The idea that knowledge of software and data is needed only by physicists and data scientists is decades out of date
Knowing your way round software and data is a fundamental part of being a researcher
Funders, government and universities are really start to care, because of reliability and reproducibility
But undergraduate courses are yet to catch up with the needs of research
That's where this course comes in: we'll introduce you to some of the most useful software and data concepts you'll need
What are we teaching
Takes place over one morning every week in the first semester
Starts with a video introduction
2 hours to run through materials - you might get through it faster
You'll be supported on Slack
30 min seminar to discuss ideas afterwards
By Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.