Git

This work was done by Leo with Erik Nelson and Ryan Miller. Thank you for your time and input! Oh ohh! My GitHub repository is huge! 😱 What do I do now?

Oh ohh! 😱 What do you do now? The data me and my colleagues work with is typically too big for our personal computers, so we use a high performance computing environment (cluster) and mostly interact with it through the command line terminal.

This semester I’m taking the live version of the Data Analysis class by Jeff Leek. His more popular version of the course is available through Coursera. One of the things that Jeff promotes is reproducibility and sharing code.

Bitbucket announced their new “look” today. The goal is to make it more team friendly but I guess that they also wanted to make it look fresh. For example, the overview page now has a quick summary:

Last week I gave a presentation during our computing club on how to use git (a version control system). I used as a motivating example the first steps of creating your own academic webpage.

I consider myself a fan of using version control for bioinformatics/biostatistics (or any text based, like code) project. Yet my knowledge of version control systems is quite limited. I’ve used Mercurial for some time, but I haven’t ventured much beyond the basic commands and some GUIs for merging.