ETC5513: Collaborative and Reproducible Practices

This unit develops teamwork skills, through instruction on reproducibility and version control to conduct collaborative data analysis. These skills are practised in a team setting with a data analysis project.

Learning outcomes

  1. Develop skills to create reproducible data analyses
  2. Understand the operation of version control systems
  3. Utilise version control to integrate data analysis efforts of team members
  4. Effectively work with a group to construct a collaborative data story

Teachers

Weekly schedule

  • 2 hour workshop, Thursdays 10am-12pm each week
  • 1.5 hour tutorial, one of:
    • Tuesday 6pm-7.30pm
    • Wednesday 4pm-5.30pm
    • Wednesday 5.30pm-7pm

Consultation

  • Michael Lydeamore: Thursday 3pm-4pm hybrid
  • David Wu: Tuesday 4-5pm in-person (See Moodle for details)
  • Naveen Kaushik: Monday 5.30-7pm online
Date Topic Tutorial Workshop Assessments
03 Mar Introduction to collaborative and reproducible practices
10 Mar Reproducible reports using Quarto
17 Mar Introduction to version control systems: git and GitHub
24 Mar Reproducible reporting using Quarto, git and GitHub
31 Mar Deeper git knowledge, stashing and tools
07 Apr Reproducible reporting and version control systems
14 Apr Workflows for reproducible data analysis
21 Apr Mid-semester break
28 Apr No class (University Holiday)
05 May Reproducible reporting for specialised and broad audiences
12 May Advanced collaborative practices
19 May Reproducible workflows in consultancy
26 May Course recap
11 Mar Assignment 1
22 Apr Assignment 2
06 May Assignment 3
20 May Interview