Assessing the impact of introductory programming workshops on the computational reproducibility of biomedical workflows

Publishing date: 2020-08-18

Published on: PLOS ONE

summary: This mixed methods study consisted of in-depth interviews with 14 biomedical researchers before and after participation in an introductory programming workshop. During the interviews, participants described their research workflows and responded to a quantitative checklist measuring reproducible behaviors. While none of the workshop participants completely changed their workflows, many of them did incorporate new practices, tools, or methods that helped make their work more reproducible and transparent to other researchers. This indicates that programming workshops now offered by libraries and other organizations contribute to computational reproducibility training for researchers.

authors: Ariel Deardorff

link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230697

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