Research Software Hour

Research Software Hour is an online stream/show about scientific computing and research software. It is designed to provide the skills typically picked up via informal networks: each ~2 weeks, we do some combination of exploring new tools, analyzing and improving someone's research code, and discussion.

Watchers can take part and contribute code to us which we analyze and discuss on stream.

In Autumn 2021, we stream Wednesdays at 14:00 Central European time / 15:00 East Europe time. Convert 14:00 to your timezone

Follow the Twitter streams @__radovan or @SciCompAalto for updates.

Upcoming shows

September 8: Computers for research 101: The essential course that everyone skipped
September 22: How to organize software/data in a new research group
October 6: Intro to GitHub
October 20: Lessons from starting a RSE group at a university.

Other future topics

How to manage code on a research-group level (for group leaders, how to prevent everyone from doing their own things)
How to use SSH and GPG keys (we all need them sooner or later, it is "never" taught, and documentation is often not adapted to non-experts)
Licensing and sharing: what do you need to know in practice (e.g. How to agree on code and licensing)
Shell: advanced tricks we use
Testing
Publishing and releasing software. Making your code ready for publication in Journal of Open Source Software
Renv / Julia environment reproducibity
Our favourite R libraries
Desktop to cluster
Cluster: working efficiently
Strategies to parallelize a code
Writing parallel code
Finding and solving memory bottlenecks, especially in Python
How to run a Python web service or in other words: what to do when you need more than a static website?
Containers