In the last GitHub tutorial, we created a repository for a project on GitHub then linked this to the project’s folder on our local computer. Linking the repository this way records the version history of our project on the Internet. When we set up the GitHub repository, we used the command line to push the local repository to the GitHub
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Last year, Fang & Casadevall (2016) wrote an editorial entitled Research Funding: the Case for a Modified Lottery highlighting the chronic and severe lack of research funds and the resistance to change how these funds are allocated. While their proposal may seem drastic, especially to the lucky 10% or so who get their grants funded, the arguments put forth by
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Three years ago, Greg Wilson of Software Carpentry fame, along with fellow members of the Software Carpentry Community, published an article entitled Best Practices for Scientific Computing. This article is a great reference and covers all aspects of scientific computing. However, the paper could be intimidating to novices. To remedy this, Greg Wilson et al. recently published a follow-up paper
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Given the ongoing debate on the lack of reproducibility in many scientific fields, Szucs and Ioannidis (2017) analysed published records in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology journals to determine publication practices in these fields. The investigators used a text-mining approach to extract 26,841 records of degrees of freedom and t-values from 3,801 papers published between Jan 2011 to Aug 2015
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