Best Practices for Scientific Computing

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Biology, January 2014

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q&a: 15 Q&A threads
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So far, Altmetric has seen 15 Q&A posts from 15 users.

Use of uninitialized value $e2 in string eq

Posted by carnisitir, at stackoverflow.com, 16 Mar 2020

Hopefully you can help a scientist to decipher whats wrong with the code I'm trying to run to clean up some NGS results. The…

Programming cleanly when writing scientific code

Posted by auden, at softwareengineering.stackexchange.com, 06 Jul 2018

I don't really write large projects. I'm not maintaining a huge database or dealing with millions of lines of code. My code is…

Resources for quantitative social science research workflow

Posted by FalafelPita, at academia.stackexchange.com, 12 May 2018

I'm interested in best practices for research workflows for quantitative social science. The best book I have encountered on…

Naming scientific output files

Posted by Jess, at scicomp.stackexchange.com, 10 May 2017

What's the best practice for naming output files from scripts that you're experimenting with? I'm trying different parameters…

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