Ways to ReproHack!

7 Flavors of Reprohack

What are the Flavors?

  • Your team.
  • Your classroom.
  • Your institute or faculty.
  • Your university.
  • Remote #ReproHack .
  • ReproHack at a (un -) conference.
  • Mix-and-Match.

1: Your Team

Options:

Codecheck each others work (before submission or before sharing code online)

Codecheck benchmarks (and share the frustration)

Upside:

  • Immediate use for your own research

  • Use existing facilities

  • Could be done before submission

Challenges:

Convincing colleagues can be difficult

2: Your classroom

Options:

  • Coursework or hand-in assignments
  • Peer reviews amongst students
  • Assignments submitted binder ready

Challenges

More work beforehand, focus might shift from content to skill

Upside

  • Reproducible assignments are easier to handle
  • Teaching important research skills along with content

Join the discussion: #TeachingByReprohacking on Twitter and the dedicated Teaching Channel on our Slack

3: Your institute or faculty

Upsides:

  • Focus on one domain (more or less broadly)

  • Similar data (size, privacy issues etc)

  • Similar scripting and programming languages

  • Get to network with peers outside your lab

Challenges:

Requires a bigger organizing team

4: Your university

Upsides:

  • Interdisciplinary fun!

  • Share with people with similar enthusiasm

  • Meet people that are in different communities (E.g. ReproducibiliTea)

Challenges:

  • organize location, finance
  • communication across disciplines
  • different levels of skills (Stats, Programming, Open Science things)

5: Remote #ReproHack

Upside:

  • Accessibility
  • Expand to international community members

Challenges:

  • Tech - can be expensive
  • Tech - can fail
  • Special efforts for networking necessary

6: #ReproHack at a (un -) conference!

Upside

  • Part of a large event
  • “walk-in” participants
  • within field/ specialty

Challenges:

  • may need to be presented in submission process

7: Mix-and-Match

Options:

  • Keep it to one programming language and interdisciplinary

  • Cluster around one research topic across domains

  • be creative and make this format your own!

Material from last Future Organizers Call

Slides used for community call: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dzNo0w1a1Aug7OvkeyZygAuUlHK8dgYyv8X-FXgYj5w/edit?usp=sharing

Collaborative Notes of the Community Call: https://hackmd.io/@DGawehns/Sk5K1GYa8/edit