Department of Electrical Engineering - Columbia University

EECS E6891 - Spring 2014

REPRODUCING COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS

Course outline

Resources

Provisional; subject to change!

Session Date Topic

1 Wed 2014-01-22 Introduction: Irreproducibility - The Duke scandal

2 Wed 2014-01-29 Academic Publishing
Discussions of preliminary paper choices

3 Wed 2014-02-05 Preliminary Project Presentations

4 Wed 2014-02-12 Personal Lessons in Software Engineering

5 Wed 2014-02-19 Version Control & Github

6 Wed 2014-02-26 Testing & validation

7 Wed 2014-03-05

8 Wed 2014-03-12 Mid-semester updates
Reproduction packages shared

Wed 2014-03-19 Spring Break

9 Wed 2014-03-26 Guest lecture: Greg Wilson (Software Carpentry):
Teaching basic skills for computational research

10 Wed 2014-04-02 Public challenges & evaluation campaigns
Feedback on reproduction packages due

11 Wed 2014-04-09 Presenting computational results

12 Wed 2014-04-16 Guest Lecture: Victoria Stodden (Columbia Stats):
Open Licensing and Science Policy

13 Wed 2014-04-23 Open discussion of recent issues in reproducibility

14 Wed 2014-04-30 Final presentations
Final papers due