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 week, 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.

We broadcast on Twitch Thursdays at 20:30 Oslo time / 21:30 Helsinki time. Convert to your timezone.

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

Plan for 2021

Starting from Feb. 4, 2021, our plan is to have a show every other week. The off weeks may have more advanced but less planned shows. We plan to go through the following topics, roughly from top to bottom (but we will readjust as necessary):

Feb. 4: Why is software, data, etc important (the Zen of scientific computing)
Feb. 18: Working in shells and terminals
Mar. 4: Data preparation and release
Mar. 25: Our favourite Python libraries

Later:

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