Johns Hopkins University

Reproducible Research

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Roger D. Peng, PhD
Jeff Leek, PhD
Brian Caffo, PhD

Instructors: Roger D. Peng, PhD

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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(4,174 reviews)

7 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
93%
Most learners liked this course

What you'll learn

  • Organize data analysis to help make it more reproducible

  • Write up a reproducible data analysis using knitr

  • Determine the reproducibility of analysis project

  • Publish reproducible web documents using Markdown

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There are 4 modules in this course

This week will cover the basic ideas of reproducible research since they may be unfamiliar to some of you. We also cover structuring and organizing a data analysis to help make it more reproducible. I recommend that you watch the videos in the order that they are listed on the web page, but watching the videos out of order isn't going to ruin the story.

What's included

9 videos4 readings1 assignment

This week we cover some of the core tools for developing reproducible documents. We cover the literate programming tool knitr and show how to integrate it with Markdown to publish reproducible web documents. We also introduce the first peer assessment which will require you to write up a reproducible data analysis using knitr.

What's included

9 videos1 assignment1 peer review

This week covers what one could call a basic check list for ensuring that a data analysis is reproducible. While it's not absolutely sufficient to follow the check list, it provides a necessary minimum standard that would be applicable to almost any area of analysis.

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10 videos

This week there are two case studies involving the importance of reproducibility in science for you to watch.

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5 videos1 reading1 peer review

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Roger D. Peng, PhD
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