Reproducibility and Preservation

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

7 articles in this collection
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 this week

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