schedule.md

Statistics 159/259: Weekly Plan

Prof. Pérez and GSI Sapienza , Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

Below is our current plan for the course. This is not a contract: it is a plan, and it may change substantially as the semester unfolds, especially given extra uncertainties due to COVID-19.

The table of contents on the left pane has links to lectures and labs. The following are live executable links that use the nbgitpuller service to give you a current copy from git of the given content, ready to be run in the Spring 2022 Berkeley hub. You can use these links in order to run the content conveniently without manual git work.

Lectures

Note that all lecture videos are posted on the bCourses "Lectures" playlist for the course (this link is accessible only to Berkeley personnel).

1. Jan 19. Logistics and intro to Git.
2. Jan 26. JupyterHub, JupyterLab and its various tools, dotfiles for reproducible personal configuration.
3. Feb 2. Github, Git tutorial continued. (Note: this lecture has damaged audio for the 2nd half).
4. Feb 9. Git visuals, an overview of Project Jupyter. IPython - beyond plain Python.
5. Feb 16. Rich output in Jupyter, VNC and virtual desktops in JupyterLab. Introduction to nbdime.
6. Feb 23. Climate data, xarray and open science at NASA. Guest lecture by Dr. Chelle Gentemann.
7. March 2. Merge conflicts with nbdime (sample repo). Custom display logic in Jupyter. (Note: this lecture has damaged audio for the last ~ 45 minutes).
8. March 9. Automation and Make, based on the Carpentries' tutorial.

Live links for labs on the Berkeley DataHub

• Lab 01.

• Lab 02.

• Lab 03.

• Lab 04

• Lab 05

Assigned Readings

When an assignment consists of multiple articles, you should submit a summary paragraph and idea highlight paragraph per each separate article.

• #1, due Jan 31, 2022: Developing open source scientific practice.

• #2, due Feb 14, 2022: Keith Baggerly and the Potti & Nevins Cancer Scandal. These are actually two videos, not reading, but the same format applies (short summary, then idea highlight; in this case only one paragraph of eacy kind is to be submitted, as the 60 minutes video is a short overview meant to give you context, while the talk contains more dense ideas):

  • 2012, 60 minutes segment about Duke Clinical Trials (also available on vimeo).
  • 2018, The Importance of Reproducible Research in High-Throughput Biology, talk at UW.

• #3, due Feb 22: Earth and Climate Science in the Cloud

  • Perspectives on Data Reproducibility and Replicability in Paleoclimate and Climate Science.
  • Gentemann et al. 2021, Science Storms the Cloud.
  • Gentemann et al. "Satellite sea surface temperatures along the West Coast of the United States during the 2014–2016 northeast Pacific marine heat wave.". For this paper, start thinking about reproducibility issues with it. The lead author, Dr. Chelle Gentemann, will be our guest lecturer on Feb 23, and she will discuss aspects of this work. Later we will follow up with a reproducibility attempt around this paper.

• #4, due Feb 28: Core concepts

  • Barba 2018, Terminologies for Reproducible Research
  • Reproducibility and Replicability in Science, chapter 2 (SCIENTIFIC METHODS AND KNOWLEDGE).

• #5, due Mar 7: Foundational classics

  • Schwab, M., Karrenbach, N., Claerbout, J. (2000) Making scientific computations reproducible, Comp. Sci. Eng. 2(6):61–67, doi: 10.1109/5992.881708.
  • Reproducible Research, by the Yale Law School Roundtable on Data and Code Sharing, Comp. Sci. Eng. 12(5): 8–13 (Sept.-Oct. 2010), doi:10.1109/mcse.2010.113.

• #6, due Mar 14: Jupyter in Computational Research

  • Granger and Pérez 2021, Jupyter: Thinking and Storytelling With Code and Data.
  • Using Jupyter for Reproducible Scientific Workflows.
  • Jupyter in Computational Science.
  • Ten simple rules for writing and sharing computational analyses in Jupyter Notebooks.

• No assignment Mar 21, Spring Recess.

NOTE: the selections below are still subject to change

• #7, due Mar 28: Computational challenges

  • The Limits of Reproducibility in Numerical Simulation.
  • Clementi and Barba 2021, Reproducible validation and replication studies in nanoscale physics.

• #8, due Apr 4: Open Source Software and Open Science - these are four easy "ten simple rules for...":

  • the Open Development of Scientific Software.
  • documenting scientific software.
  • helping newcomers become contributors to open projects.
  • Cultivating Open Science and Collaborative R&D.

• #9, due Apr 11: Computational challenges

  • Mesnard and Barba 2017, Reproducible and Replicable Computational Fluid Dynamics: It’s Harder Than You Think.
  • Mesnard and Barba 2020, Reproducible Workflow on a Public Cloud for Computational Fluid Dynamics.

• #10, due Apr 18: Open Source and Open Science

  • Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences, 2018. Chapter 4, Lessons Learned from Community Perspectives.
  • Open Science by Design, Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research (2018). Chapter 4, A VISION FOR OPEN SCIENCE BY DESIGN.
  • Turk 2013, How to Scale a Code in the Human Dimension

• #11, due Apr 25: Earth and Climate Science in the Cloud

  • Liu et al. 2019, improving reproducibility in Earth science research.
  • Feulner 2016, Science under Societal Scrutiny: Reproducibility in Climate Science.
  • Abernathey et al. 2021, Cloud-Native Repositories for Big Scientific Data.

• No assignment May 2, RRR Weeek, but if you'd like some fun reading for intellectual inspiraiton, I recommend Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming.

• #12, due May 9: Earth and climate science

  • Feulner 2016, Science under Societal Scrutiny: Reproducibility in Climate Science.
  • Geyer et al. 2021, Limits of reproducibility and hydrodynamic noise in atmospheric regional modelling.
  • Hoffimann et al. 2021, Geostatistical Learning: Challenges and Opportunities