I practically disagree with every word of that blog post. Wow. If you use version control properly it can also serve as a lab notebook. If there are more people developing a project, it can also tell who to ask for a reason for some specific change.
I use latex, because shuffling figures, tables (oh, and making tables look better than my cat's puke) and bibliographies is less work. I had to recently write a paper in openoffice and it was an ordeal, mostly because we tracked changes. And we could have used latex and version control and it would have been so much easier. Of course I write scripts to generate my figures, especially when my boss asks me to move that trace to the other panel and add another here, and by the way, let's change all plots to red and black, instead of red and green, think of the colorblind!, and yes, this heatmap's pretty cool, but I'd like a different color map. It would take me ages, otherwise. I use version control mostly because I tend to make changes that make scripts and models stop working properly. I used to use an equivalent of dropbox and it made me cry all the time. Joanna ________________________________________ From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 9:24 AM To: Software Carpentry Discussion Subject: [Discuss] RajLab: From reproducibility to over-reproducibility Hi, This blog post: http://rajlaboratory.blogspot.no/2016/02/from-reproducibility-to-over.html seems like a perfect example of how many people will think. And I can’t really come up with some compelling evidence to convince this person he is (completely) wrong. On the plus side, they are very aware of the issues and are doing things a lot better than many others... Lex _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
