Hello! We hope you'll join us for the April workshop. Details on the date and time, agenda and relevant discussion questions are below. Please think about the discussion prompts before the workshop. Workshop slides, recordings and follow-up resources will be posted in the April 2022 Monthly Workshop Materials folder on Basecamp after the workshop.

April 20, 2022 at 3-4PM EST (Zoom calendar invitation)

Reproducible Research and Coding Documentation

1. Welcome and announcements (coaches and CSTE)
2. Topic presentations (Github, Gitlab and non-product-based alternatives for version control)
3. DSTT Team sharing their experience - Cook County Health and Hospitals System
4. Group discussion (see discussion topic and prompts below)
5. Report out and wrap-up

Often, multiple data sources need to be used when creating a data science product, like a dashboard, script for cluster detection, or publication ready research data set. As a first step, we suggest completing an up to date data audit of these data. Documentation of the dimensions that impact your data flows and processes should also be compiled. For example, data may be owned or processed from within or outside your department, these data may be updated daily or yearly, you may have data dictionaries that need to be updated and you may need to document the various levels of complexity for data processing before the data gets used.

Is your group starting with a data audit before you move forward with your project? What dimensions are you considering when doing so? 

Are there any issues you currently have with your data audits and what type of support do you need?