Github Actions workshop

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Title: Automating research workflows with GitHub Actions

Other title ideas:

• Automating data science with GitHub Actions

Date

Wed, Dec 4
11:00 - 1:00

Description

GitHub Actions make it easy to automate research data workflows. Through a series of examples you'll learn how to apply GitHub Actions to a variety of research tasks such as running a data validation script when you update your data, publishing HTML reports to GitHub pages, scheduling regular releases of versioned data, and processing data in parallel.

Tasks

More detailed instructions for specific steps here: https://cct-datascience.github.io/group-procedures/workshops.html

Pre-workshop checklist:

• Create a Zoom meeting with registration (instructions & settings)
• Write up announcement and record on the Workshops HackMD
• Advertise
  • Add an event to the group website workshops page
  • Add to Data Science Institute calendar https://datascience.arizona.edu/calendar
  • Include announcement in the next mailing list email
  • resBazAZ and UA Data Science Slack
• Provide homework / background reading as appropriate (installation, references, etc.)
• Send out reminders

Materials

Create a folder on GitHub in the format YYYYMM-short-title and include:

• Slides (if applicable)
• Notes

Use .md, .Rmd with output: github_document, or .qmd with format: gfm OR render as html and publish to cct-datascience.quarto.pub