Software skills are vital to research

9 June 2021 - Festival of Doctoral Research           @sjh5000     ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

By Simon Hettrick

How it used to be

In the beginning...

Vive la révolution!

Zeitgeists!

And it's not just the zeitgeists...

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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.

"Not at all"

"Vital"

Software in publications

65%

31 UK institutions ~ 600k papers

Reliability

+

Reproducibility

Who writes all the software?

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...PhDs and Postdocs

www.society-rse.org

https://rsgsoton.net/

The Carpentries

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https://carpentries.org

"The Carpentries teach researchers the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain"

  • ~40 learners per workshop

  • 4 modules over two days

  • Instructor led

  • Hands on training

  • Helpers provide on the spot help

  • Typically held every six months

Overview

What we teach

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Version control

Command line

#! /bin/bash

#Initialise a counter
count=1

#Make new dir
mkdir NewImgDir

#Loop through file, copy and rename
for i in *.jpg
  do
    cp $i NewImgDir/"EventPhoto_"$count".jpg"
    count=$(( count + 1 ))
  done

Better spreadsheets

  • Software is fundamental to all disciplines of research

  • Software skills will allow you to work faster, more reliably and with less boredom

  • We provide access to training and support to help you in your research

Sign up for training: https://bit.ly/3fYuBfx

Thank you!

@sjh5000

ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

Licence

 © Simon Hettrick

These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Picture credits

Where not stated on image:


Big data - Tumisu

Blockchain - mmi19

Cloud computing - Pete Linforth

Cybersecurity - Darwin Laganzon

DNA - Gerd Altman

IBM PC - Ruben de Rijcke

IOT - jeferrb

Machine Learning - Gordon Johnson

Software skills are vital to research

By Simon Hettrick

Software skills are vital to research

Presentation to describe the importance of software in research and the reason for collecting software skills. Presented at Festival of Doctoral Research at the University of Southampton

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