Software in Southampton

 17 July 2019 - Southampton RSC           @sjh5000     ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

By Simon Hettrick

The first study of software use in research

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Use

software

Fundamental to

results

Develop own code

69%

92%

56%

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Is it the same in Southampton?

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  • 16 questions
  • 6355 invitations (ERE staff & PhDs)
  • 2 weeks collecting responses
  • 603 responses (594 usable)

https://github.com/Southampton-RSG/soton_software_survey_analysis_2019

Data and analysis

Results

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is any software you have used in the generation of a result that you expect to appear in a publication.

 

This might be anything from a few-line script to clean some data, to a fully fledged software suite. It includes code you have written yourself and code written by someone else.

"Research software"

Also interesting...

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What next?

  • Review analysis and publish report

  • Collaborate!

  • Investigate suggestions

  • Make recommendations for supporting software use

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Thank you!

@sjh5000

ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

Licence

 © Simon Hettrick

These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 

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Studies and links

  • National software survey:
    https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2017-09-06-journey-reproducibility-excel-pandas