2023-01-25-meeting-notes.md

Various meeting and discussion notes

2023-01-25

E-notebooks

think about e-notebooks

Hazem's references for tips for choosing an e-notebook:

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05895-3
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-021-00645-8 (pros and cons)

Tidy data

DS was not at session, but ideas around organising data came up

keep your tabular data “tidy”

• the concept of tidy data
• https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.html

This idea leads to a whole bunch of nice properties and tools for manipulating tabular data (selecting columns, filtering rows, statistical plotting,...) which is often a big win.