3. Week 3 Learning and Application Notebook 9.28.22 - aboatwr/R4R GitHub Wiki

Brief overview of what I learned this week.

This week we learned about open science applications to project management. Two topics I found interesting were governance documents and research objects. (Link to this weeks lecture)

How might the concepts I learned this week apply to my research now?

As I choose my advisor and begin my PhD research, I think it will be really helpful to keep in mind a lot of the topics we discussed this week.

  • I dont think I will be working on any big (>3) research teams in the near-term, but I think it might be smart to set up some sort of "governance document"/"social contract" with my advisor(s) once I formally create my committee just so that we understand each other expectations.
  • I also like the idea of a lemon lab -- but in the context of my smaller research group, I think it would be helpful to have meetings specifically designated to give each other feedback (positive or negative).
  • I am interested to learn more about research objects and how to start making one. I think we will be covering this in a few weeks.

Questions I am thinking about:

  • At what point is a project large enough that you should make one of these? Maybe it is helpful for any project with more than one person. Even if it is just a small document outlining expectations and roles.
  • Is R Markdown Similar to Jupyter Notebooks? (R markdown is just something I want to look into using, I never heard of it before but I really like using Jupyter Notebooks).
  • How much time should I spend setting up new research projects to be more "open" (creating containers, data management plans, governance documents) when I am currently just in the exploratory/beginning phase of research?

Presentation Ideas:

  • I am thinking about giving a presentation that just summarizes the basic principles of open science
  • At first I wanted to do something more technical, but I have been digging around and I dont think many of the principles/tools of open science are utilized by many Economists or Economics Journals. It might be helpful to give folks in my department a general idea of some of the resources available and the types of benefits open science could bring to our field.