4. Best Practices and Collaborative Development

Wilson et al 2014 Best practices in Scientific Computing

Wilson et al paper: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745

Slideshow: http://swcarpentry.github.io/slideshows/best-practices/

Wilson et al 2017 Good enough practices in Scientific Computing

Wilson et al paper: https://swcarpentry.github.io/good-enough-practices-in-scientific-computing/

Example: PEcAn Project

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Example 1: Ocean Health Index

Figure 1: Better science in less time, illustrated by the Ocean Health Index project.

From: Lowndes et al 2017 “Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools” Nature Ecology & Evolution doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0160

Example 2: BAAD database

• D Falster “The challenge of combining 176 x #otherpeoplesdata to create the Biomass And Allometry Database” Blog Post
• BAAD GitHub Repository
• Falster et al 2015 “BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants” Ecological Archives E096-128

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