Version Control for Scripts, Data and Text documents

Date: 

Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 1:30pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

TMEC 227 Mini Amphitheater

This class is part of the HMS Research Data Management Seminar Series

Registration: https://libcal.countway.harvard.edu/calendar/countway/version-control

Workshop 3: Version Control for Scripts, Data and Text documents

Tired of wading through files titled paper_v1, paper_v2, paper_v3_beforeAdvisor... ? This hands-on workshop will introduce the concepts of using a version control system to manage changes and the history of your data files (text, web, scripts, etc.). Attendees will participate in multiple exercises in setting up repositories, where the changes and history are stored, working through the iterative process of altering files & recording changes, and rewinding the clock to retrieve a file at any point in the creative process.

Note: You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop. However, please follow the installation requirments. 

Requirements: Participants should bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. Additionally:

Instructors: Radhika Khetani, Training Director & Research Scientist, Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Meeta Mistry, Research Scientist, Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH

Contactjulie_goldman@hms.harvard.edu  

 

Additional Seminars in this Series: 

 Seminar Title  Date Location  Registration
Introduction to the Command-line Interface Tuesday, June 18, 2019 TMEC 227 Mini Amphitheater bit.ly/RDM-Summer19
Introduction to High-Performance Computing using HMS’ O2 cluster Thursday, July 11, 2019 Countway Library, Minot Room bit.ly/RDM-Summer19
Version Control for Scripts, Data and Text documents Wednesday, August 21, 2019 TMEC 227 Mini Amphitheater bit.ly/RDM-Summer19