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Version control for academics with GitHub by Dr Samuel Forbes
1 February 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm GMT
About the speaker
Dr Samuel Forbes is an Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology at Durham University (@samhforbes). Outside of his research, Dr Forbes is an experienced GitHub user and maintains several R packages, which can be seen on his own GitHub page.
About the talk
Version control can be an important skill for both ensuring files are backed up adequately, and for maintaining good organisation of analysis scripts and documents. I will give a basic introduction to how GitHub might be used by academics both at an individual and at a team level.