EmacsNYC has another great video up. This time, its Evan Misshula talking about Org-mode and reproducible research. Misshula is a graduate student in Criminal Justice at CUNY who does a lot of statistical research on Criminal Justice matters.
Like me, he’s a big advocate of reproducible research and spends much of his presentation talking about how Org-mode can facilitate that. In the first part of the talk he explains why reproducible research is so important. If you’re any kind of scientist, the statistics that he gives will set your hair on fire.
As a result of the high error rate with research that is not reproducible, Misshula refuses to review or cite any papers that aren’t reproducible and he urges other researchers to do the same. As I said, the statistics for research that is not reproducible is staggering. Sadly, this applies to Computer Science as much as it does to other disciplines. Watch the video to learn the details.