Most modern-day research involves the use of software, and research software itself is increasingly recognised as a key output of research by the research community. Software requires maintenance to remain useful, and that calls for a long-term, sustained investment.
By Nikoleta Glynatsi, Cardiff University and Tania Allard, The University of Manchester. The annual PyCon UK took place in Cardiff’s City Hall from Saturday the 15th till Wednesday the 19th of September 2018. The conference included five days of talks, workshops and collaboration. Fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute never fail to attend PyCon UK and once again this year the Fellows played a major role at the conference.
Software Sustainability Institute Fellow Tania Allard will be giving a talk about practical steps for reproducible data analysis pipelines (Title: "A crazy little thing called reproducible science") at RAPIDS conference on the 19th of July 2018 in London, UK.
This conference is organised by dotmesh in conjunction with King's College London, The Farr Institute of Health Informatics, and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and is focused on reproducibility and provenance in data science.
By Adam Tomkins (Chair), University of Sheffield, James Grant, University of Bath, Alexander Morley,