Sharing Code Well

Eric Earl, NIMH

Data Science & Sharing Team

Good documentation lowers the barrier to entry, making it easier to understand and start using.

2.

Document the

undocumented &

consider your audience

1.

Version control with good commit messages & upload to GitHub

3.

Prepare metadata like

a DOI & a license

4.

Test your docs &

checklist your fixes

5.

Release with semantic versioning & a changelog

Do

Make a public GitHub repo
Make docs that target your audience and test them
Get a DOI on Zenodo or OSF
Document both what it does and doesn't do
Comment your code
Release incrementally

Don't

Share PHI or PII
Hide your mistakes
Let your scope or plans change for releases
Make an over-sized README without pictures or tables

Hooray!

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Sharing Code Well

By Eric Earl

Sharing Code Well

A short set of slides about how to do FAIR code sharing on GitHub.

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Eric Earl

Eric Earl is a Neuroinformaticist acting as a Data Scientist in the NIMH Data Science & Sharing Team.