The Turing Way: Reproducibility, open science and collaboration in research

Dates: 18 - 19 March 2021 Trainers: Malvika Sharan, Kirstie Whitaker, Sarah Gibson Workshop Format: 2 days, presentation, discussion and reflection based sessions It is commonly agreed that most scientific work can not be directly and independently reproduced at the moment. The code, data and computational environments that would be needed to verify published findings are not routinely shared for many reasons across ethical, logistical, and incentive considerations. Open research practices can help data scientists improve the validity and reusability of their work – from the study’s design to the publication of its many research outputs: protocol, code, data and traditional manuscript. The Alan Turing Institute is committed to both developing and widely sharing open research approaches, and we are proud to be a world leader in providing the resources, community and skills required to implement open, ethical and reproducible science through the Turing Way initiative. This 2-day workshop will provide you with the skills to enable you to adopt reproducible, open and ethical approaches in your research. At the end of the workshop, the learner will be able to: understand the importance of reproducibility in research identify important tools and methods for designing reproducible projects such as version control, continuous integration, containers and Binder learn about open research practices for data science projects such as open source software development, open data archiving, open access publications and preprints apply practices put in place by The Turing Way for collaboration and communication, and explore them through the workshop’s practical tasks and group discussions produce their group reports in the form of a collaboratively written document and present the important lessons learned during the workshop with the entire class Include their notes in The Turing Way book to receive recognition as a contributor of The Turing Way that they will be able to share with other