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Topic Ideas
Here, we keep track of potential topic ideas for future meetings. Suggestions welcome!
- version control and especially Git + GitHub
- tools and websites for open science and reproducible research
- reference managers/tools (e.g., Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley)
- markdown / Rmarkdown
- Jupyter and R Notebooks
- Julia (a relatively new programming language for numerical computing)
- Python and esp. SciPy
- Octave (a free/open-source alternative to Matlab)
- multicore/parallel processing
- cloud computing
- Shiny
- LaTeX
- Linux/Unix
- project/file organization (e.g., How to name files)
- analysis workflows
- presentation software/tools (i.e., alternatives to PowerPoint)
- podcasts related to science/stats/academia/research/etc
- social media for communicating about science/stats/academia/research/etc.
- free/open-source SPSS-like alternative stats packages (e.g., JASP, jamovi, PSPP, BlueSky)
- programming editors (e.g., Atom, Sublime, Emacs, Vim, Notepad++, …)
- tools/approaches for writing papers with many co-authors
- scripting (via the command line / terminal)
- mind mapping software
- R (and other software) for big data
- data visualization using Tableau