[Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Hi everyone, I've started drafting a short guide to "good enough" practices in scientific computing, and would be grateful for your input. You can view the outline at http://swcarpentry.github.io/good-enough-practices-in-scientific-computing/, and leave comments at

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Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Hi Greg, I only had time to skim through it. However, one thing I find is missing in the Data Management part is something like this : - If you have tens of thousands of files (or more), you are probably doing it wrong. Look for archiving those files in chunks, or combining them in some way.

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

I hesitate to bring up something so inflammable, but have we had the "Data is" vs "data are" discussion and reached a consensus? -Steve - q•b - > On Nov 17, 2015, at 03:10, Greg Wilson > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've started drafting a short

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Le 2015-11-17 11:15, Martin Bähr a écrit : Excerpts from Maxime Boissonneault's message of 2015-11-17 14:29:28 +0100: On a cluster, having tens of thousands of files will be a killer, but even on a personnal computer, it will make your data management a nightmare. I have seen users who think

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

On 11/17/2015 5:58 PM, Maxime Boissonneault wrote: Le 2015-11-17 11:15, Martin Bähr a écrit : it is not the users fault that filesystems were not designed for their needs, and while the users should be taught how to cope with this, i consider their expectation that having 2.5M files in a

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Perhaps this is an example of "good enough". :) Since either form ("data is/are") seems to be acceptable in computing, we can probably just say that either form is good enough for us. Given that SWC serves a large number of non-native English speakers, grammar issues could turn into a huge time

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

+1 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Shreyas Cholia wrote: > Perhaps this is an example of "good enough". :) > > Since either form ("data is/are") seems to be acceptable in computing, we > can probably just say that either form is good enough for us. Given that SWC > serves a

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You can do a bash Jupyter notebook. Not completely trivial to set up so I would not be getting attendees to do it, but it works identically to the python notebook. The cells are a bash shell so you can do all the bash and git just like it was in a terminal. Also works for R although in the real

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Thanks for the feedback, everyone - can we please move discussion to the GitHub repo (file issues, etc.) so that it's all in one place? Cheers, Greg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] feedback wanted on "good enough" practices

Sorry. I created this issue : https://github.com/swcarpentry/good-enough-practices-in-scientific-computing/issues/24 I only posted my original comment. Feel free to re-post your comments in the issue. Maxime Le 2015-11-17 13:21, Greg Wilson a écrit : Thanks for the feedback, everyone - can