Coding Confessions

CW21 Hack Day - 2021-03-31 to 2021-04-01 Blanch-1943 - HP3-CW21 Hack Day idea proposer Colin Sauze This document should be used to capture the information for a Hack Day Idea. Idea name (provisional) Coding Confessions This is the provisional name of the Idea, solution or just a title; this can be changed later if a team is formed and you decide on a new team/product name. Context and/or research domain Please describe the context and/or research domain to which the problem applies...

2 min · Colin Sauze

Dealing with Legacy Code

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Idea 4 - CI4-CW20 Dealing with Legacy Code Participants Patricia Herterich_ _ Cat Smith_ _ Christopher Fullerton Raniere Silva Philipp Boersch-Supan Context / Research Domain All research domains which have to contend with/rely on legacy code which does not conform to best practices. Problem Researchers are instructed to use some legacy code written by their team, a third party or even themselves a while ago....

3 min · Patricia Herterich, Cat Smith, Christopher Fullerton, Raniere Silva, Philipp Boersch-Supan

DEPTH: Developer error/problem treasure hunt!

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Garfield - CI7-CW21 Participants Please list the participants here Matt Cannon - Taylor & Francis (scribe) Dominic Kempf / RSE, Heidelberg University Matthew Bluteau / RSE, UK Atomic Energy Authority Robin Wilson / Freelance - robin@rtwilson.com Paddy McCann / RSE, University of St Andrews Title: DEPTH: Developer Error/Problem Treasure Hunt! Context / Research Domain General RSE audiences, (and really any software developer) Researchers who are not RSE - could have general or very specific queries....

3 min · Matt Cannon, Dominic Kempf, Matthew Bluteau, Robin Wilson, Paddy McCann

Escape room: Translating between RSEs and Arts & Humanities Researchers

CW21 Hack Day - 2021-03-31 to 2021-04-01 Cave-Brown-Cave-1916 - HP5-CW21 Hack Day idea proposer This document should be used to capture the information for a Hack Day Idea. Idea name (provisional) Escape room: Translating between RSEs and Arts & Humanities Researchers (Part 1) This is the provisional name of the Idea, solution or just a title; this can be changed later if a team is formed and you decide on a new team/product name....

4 min · Laura Carter, Thibault Lestang

Improving data visualization literacy

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Heathcliff - CI8-CW21 Participants Please list the participants here Connie Clare Louise Brown Sam Haynes Will Furnass Patricia Herterich Problem Improving data visualization literacy Research domain: Research communication / Data science / Visualization “Follow the science” has become the tagline for 2020, but what is “the science”? Who defines it and is it really infallible? We have all seen many graphs and statistical summaries over the last 12 months, many of them not being clear to a lay audience....

2 min · Connie Clare, Louise Brown, Sam Haynes, Will Furnass, Patricia Herterich

Online Community Cookie Cutter c<sup>3</sup>

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Idea 8 - Online Community Cookie Cutter c3- CI8-CW20 **Overview of the project: **Guiding documents/tools for leading and sustaining online research communities facilitated by collaborative projects or events. Participants Will Furnass: Scribe Colin Sauze Louise Bowler: Chair Malvika Sharan (malvikasharan@gmail.com) Jo Leng (j.leng@leeds.ac.uk) Mateusz Kuzak (@matkuzak) Back up zoom: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/s/6507227126 (Malvika) This document should be used to capture the information for a Collaborative Session / Hack Day Idea....

5 min · Will Furnass, Colin Sauze, Louise Bowler, Malvika Sharan, Jo Leng, Mateusz Kuzak

RSE2_D2

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 RSE2_D2 - CI10-CW20 Participants Yo Yehudi - Software dev and EngD student (Cambridge and Manchester) David Perez-Suarez - RSE at UCL Blair Archibald - 2017 fellow, Postdoc Glasgow (soft spot for Haskell) Marion Weinzierl - RSE at Durham University, Not a fellow… yet! Vahid Garousi - Belfast Context / Research Domain A long time ago, in an office far, far away, RSEs and researchers were developing software and may not be aware of all the good practices and are in need of a bit of motivation....

5 min · Yo Yehudi, David Perez-Suarez, Blair Archibald, Marion Weinzierl, Vahid Garousi

Running a dugnad in a research group

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Charlie - CI3-CW21 Running a Dugnad in a research group Participants Please list the participants here Sarah Gibson Sarah Jaffa Warrick Ball Neil Chue Hong This document should be used to capture the information for a Collaborative Session / Hack Day Idea. (The total amount of text should ideally be between 100-300 words and you can include a diagram or two). The document should be no larger than two pages of A4....

5 min · Heather Turner, Robin Wilson, Mario Antonioletti

Software citation videos (to understand why and how to make your software citable)

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Jasper - CI10-CW21 Participants Morane Gruenpeter (Chair) Mario Antonioletti Emmy Tsang (Scribe) Esther Plomp This document should be used to capture the information for a Collaborative Session / Hack Day Idea. (The total amount of text should ideally be between 100-300 words and you can include a diagram or two). The document should be no larger than two pages of A4. Don’t delete the details at the top of the document but you should delete all of this hint text (Arial, italic, grey, size 11) once you no longer need it....

4 min · Morane Gruenpeter, Mario Antonioletti, Emmy Tsang, Esther Plomp

State of the Art

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Idea 1 - CI1-CW20 - ‘State-of-the-Art’ Participants Dan Hobley Paddy McCann Emily Bell (chair) Jonathan Frawley (scribe) Reka Solymosi Iain Barrass Context / Research Domain Meta-research: the context is a user doing a literature review for any research software project (‘scientometrics’). We’re going to focus our proof-of-concept on speech to text research. Problem When starting a project on a topic outside current expertise, it can be difficult and time-consuming to ascertain the current state-of-the-art in terms of tools and techniques....

4 min · Dan Hobley, Paddy McCann, Emily Bell (chair), Jonathan Frawley (scribe), Reka Solymosi, Iain Barrass