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.fat[2:] Toolset
.fat[3:] Courses
.fat[4:] Use cases
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Researchers need to navigate many tools and concepts.
.cite[(c) Scriberia for The Turing Way, CC-BY]
.cite[Heidi Seibold, CC-BY 4.0, https://twitter.com/HeidiBaya/status/1579385587865649153]
.. are people who combine .emph[professional software expertise] with an .emph[understanding of research] .cite[https://researchsoftware.org/]
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Often people who grew up in research and liked computing and programming
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... or people who come from software development drawn towards meaningful and impactful work of academia
- Society of Research Software Engineering
- Recent conference: RSECon 2023
- https://nordic-rse.org/
- Nordic-RSE unconference 2023
Our team
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We grew up in research (chemistry and biology)
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Interested in software development and computing
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Employed by IT department
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We are part of Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services
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- .emph[Code review] (we discuss code in a constructive way)
- Making code .emph[more reusable]
- Good practices for documentation
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Git, GitHub, and GitLab
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Moving your work/project/code/data to Git
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Modularizing your code
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Organization of reusable Python/R notebooks ]
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Help with software licenses and open sourcing
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Publishing code
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Packaging and sharing software
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Containerization (Singularity, Docker)
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PyPI and Conda ]
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Improving scaling, CPU, and memory optimization
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Porting to GPU
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Moving from local computer to cloud or HPC
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Helping with running independent steps in parallel ]
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.cite[Midjourney, CC-BY-NC 4.0] ]
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Version control
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Collaboration using Git
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Testing
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Documentation
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Notebooks
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Modular code development
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Reproducible research
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Software licensing
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How to share and publish code ]
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Typical format: 6 half-days, twice per year, online, free, live-streamed, recorded, archived asynchronous Q&A in collaborative document
Lessons and recordings: https://coderefinery.org/lessons/ ]
Oceanography: speed-up of grid mesh generation from days to seconds by a code rewrite from Matlab to Python+Rust using a more optimal algorithm
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SMARTool: The Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool, Using GitHub Pages, JavaScript, and a CSV-based lightweight "database" to simplify maintenance, reuse, and contributions.
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Constructicon: Searchable database of multiword grammatical constructions of Russian. Moved a project from a dedicated web server and custom database to GitHub Pages, JavaScript, and a YAML-based lightweight "database" to simplify maintenance, reuse, and contributions.
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- Provide consulting: good advice is not expensive
- .emph[Code review] sessions
- Work on "smaller" projects and .emph[document use cases]
- Focus on UiT
- Attract more projects
- Be part of funding applications
- Research groups have access to best in class RSE services
- Hire more staff who collaborate on projects
- "Proper" application procedure
- Going beyond UiT
- .emph[Career path opportunities]
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