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CW21 Hack Day - 2021-03-31 to 2021-04-01 Blanch-1943 - HP3-CW21 Hack Day idea proposer Colin Sauze Idea name (provisional) Coding Confessions Context and/or research domain Anybody who writes code for research Hack Day Demo Problem People don’t want to talk about their mistakes, publish code or submit it for review. Only positive results get published. Common reasons for this are fear that “my code isn’t good enough”, “isn’t complete enough”, “has mistakes in it”....

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. The code isn’t documented or unit tested....

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Garfield - CI7-CW21 Participants 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....

CW21 Hack Day - 2021-03-31 to 2021-04-01 Cave-Brown-Cave-1916 - HP5-CW21 Hack Day idea proposer Idea name (provisional) Escape room: Translating between RSEs and Arts & Humanities Researchers (Part 1) Hack Day Demo Context and/or research domain Software development for research in the Arts and Humanities Problem Researchers in the Arts & Humanities can benefit greatly from research software, but often don’t have the kind of background in formally-structured design that a physicist or engineer does....

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Heathcliff - CI8-CW21 Participants 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....