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Reproducibility and Preservation

Reproducibility and Preservation

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

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Reproducibility

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

To guarantee reproducibility.
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Common reproducibility challenges & gotchas

Intermediate files, downloading during runtime, random number generation, and interactive results
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Pros and cons of relative and absolute filepaths

Code Ocean encourages relative filepaths
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Why do you ask users to separate code, data and results?

For clarity and reproducibility.
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Why not save everything?

Code Ocean philosophy on saving files
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Is Code Ocean a 'replication' or 'reproducibility' platform?

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

Code Ocean's Preservation Plan

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