Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
By Simon Hettrick
12 December 2019 - ReproducibiliTea, University of Southapton @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
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Research software is any software that is used to generate, process or analyse results that you intend to appear in a publication.
It can be anything from a few lines of code written by yourself, to a professionally developed software package.
Part 1
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Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
69%
92%
56%
65%
31 UK institutions ~ 600k papers
part 2
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[1]
– Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute
Further info: [2, 3]
[4]
[5]
The error is in the code that converts a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer... the 64-bit numbers [are] larger... than [the previous code], triggering an overflow condition...
...[the] backup computer crashes, followed 0.05 seconds later by a crash of the primary computer.
[6]
"Not at all"
"Vital"
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Online courses and books
Attended a course
No training
29%
46%
50%
25%
0%
25%
"Professional"
"Beginner"
Researcher
Software
Engineer
Researcher
developer
www.society-rse.org
rse.ac.uk/conf/2019
bit.ly/RSEGroupsUK
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[7]
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@sjh5000
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
© Simon Hettrick
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National software survey:
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2017-09-06-journey-reproducibility-excel-pandas
Southampton software survey:
https://github.com/Southampton-RSG/soton_software_survey_analysis_2019/blob/master/report/Research%20software%20at%20the%20University%20of%20Southampton.pdf
Grants data analysis:
https://github.com/softwaresaved/software_in_grants_GTR
Eprints publication analysis coming soon
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Rogoff, Kenneth S. (2010). "Growth in a Time of Debt". American Economic Review. 100 (2): 573–78. doi:10.1257/aer.100.2.573
https://qz.com/75035/fixing-this-excel-error-transforms-high-debt-countries-from-recession-to-growth/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/debt-growth-and-the-austerity-debate.htm
Llorente et al. Science, 350, 6262, doi:10.1126/science.aad2879
Llorente et al. 10.1126/science.aaf3945
http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane5rep.html
https://www.ukri.org/files/infrastructure/the-uks-research-and-innovation-infrastructure-opportunities-to-grow-our-capacity-final-low-res/
By Simon Hettrick
Presented at the Reproducibilitea workshop on 12 December 2019 at the University of Southampton.
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.