Posted by a.hay on 3 April 2014 - 1:02pm

Last week's Collaborations Workshop was a productive time for all involved, especially on the Hackday, where attendees developed their own coding projects in competition with other teams. We also used this as an opportunity to ask all those participating what they thought reproducibility really means.

One answer was given by PhD student Dmitrijs Milajevs, who summed it up as "a dream that easily becomes a nightmare," and has gone on to write a blog post where he elaborates on what this means in practice.

"Software in your reproducible research" looks into the differences between researchers and programmers, as well as the need for their work to be reproducible. He then proposes a model for creating a reproducible setup and how to make sure it really doesn't become a nightmare.

Dmitrijs's article is featured on Queen Mary's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science blog, and he also regularly tweets at @dimazest.