Reproducibility and Preservation

Code Ocean's philosophy on, and implementation details of, reproducibility and preservation matters.

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Written by Shahar Zaks

Reproducibility

Why do I need to run my code once more before submitting?

To guarantee reproducibility.

Written by Shahar Zaks
Updated over a week ago

Common reproducibility challenges & gotchas

Intermediate files, downloading during runtime, random number generation, and interactive results

Written by Shahar Zaks
Updated over a week ago

Pros and cons of relative and absolute filepaths

Code Ocean encourages relative filepaths

Written by Shahar Zaks
Updated over a week ago

Why do you ask users to separate code, data and results?

For clarity and reproducibility.

Written by Shahar Zaks
Updated over a week ago

Why not save everything?

Code Ocean philosophy on saving files

Written by Shahar Zaks
Updated over a week ago

Is Code Ocean a 'replication' or 'reproducibility' platform?

Reproducibility: same data + same code = same results; replication: new data + identical/similar methods

Written by Shahar Zaks
Updated over a week ago

Preservation

Code Ocean's Preservation Plan

Covering our preservation and access agreement with CLOCKSS, ownership of content on Code Ocean, and exporting capsules.

Written by Shahar Zaks
Updated over a week ago