Week 10: Reproducibility & Documents

📖 Reading

For Class:

• Debugging and Reproducible Examples
• Reproducibility and Professional Communication

Context:

• Common errors in R: An Empirical Investigation
• Framed! Reproducing and Revisiting 150-year-old Charts
• A Study in Reproducibility: The Congruent Matching Cells Algorithm and cmcR package (Optional)
• Opinionated Analysis Development (Recommended)

Think about:

• How important is long-term reproducibility?
  
• How do the two articles differ with respect to types of reproducibility?
  
• What attempts at reproducibility worked and didn’t work in each article?
  
• What important factors must exist for reproducibility?

Other Resources (not required):

• You can see all of the pages of the Statistical Atlases at the Library of Congress (and even download extremely high resolution scans, if you want to):
  • 9th census (1870)
  • 10th census (1880)
  • 11th census (1890)
  • Census page with links to other censuses
• the 1900,1910, and 1920 census atlases are not nearly as impressive.
  • A Modern Census Atlas produced in 2007 attempted to reclaim this graphical history.

🎯 Check your understanding

• Reading Quiz Week 10

🥣 Prepare for class

• Complete the debugging exercises to gain an appreciation for the importance of reproducible examples

🌮 Tuesday

• Slides

🔨️ Thursday 🌩

• Slides