Alternate title: **Where does this come from? Lessons from developing a reproducible workflow for a colleague's project**
In my role as a data manager for the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, I
frequently collaborate with academic researchers. Late last year, I began
working with a colleague who was preparing to publish her Master's thesis,
with the goal of organizing and tidying her analysis code and data to
create a fully reproducible pipeline that she could reference in a
manuscript. In this talk, I reflect on my experience organizing someone
else's project and applying reproducibility tools retroactively, rather
than setting up a project to use best practice from the beginning. I also
reflect on the importance of reproducible workflows to EEB research and
discuss some small steps toward a reproducible workflow that make a good
starting point for anyone who doesn't feel equipped to learn a lot of new
tools right off the bat.
