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Sharing Standard Statistical Scripts: Simple Slides
A Journey in ProgressSeptember 18 2012Michael Carniello
[email protected] 3 of PhUSE Working Group 5
The Question
• What platforms are available to use a medium for developing, publishing and maintaining Standard Statistical Scripts – with world-wide developers being in industry, academia and government?
• In FDA/PhUSE Meeting in early 2012, Subgroup 3 of Working Group 5 took on this question
Well, It’s a Start
• Ian Fleming, Hanming Tu and Mike Carniello spent some time working as a sub-subgroup and looked hard at Github
• They also looked at GoogleDocs, as Github proved to be fairly intense
• Right now (September 18 2012), Mike’s opinion is that GoogleDocs provides a reasonable starting place for such a platform
The Rest of This Slide Deck
• Some information about Github, how it looks and works, and why it was rejected
• Some information about GoogleDocs, how it looks and works, and why it seems like a reasonable first approach
Looks Good; What’s the Problem?
• In testers’ opinions, too much for classic statistical programming users– Too complicated an interface– Too much overhead for simple development– Too much training and education needed
• Fair enough; Github designed for classic programming languages like C and Java (not for things like R and SAS)
GoogleDocs
• Designed for collaboration on a variety of documents• Bar is low with respect to learning and using• Advantage – not horriby sophisticated• Disadvantage – not horribly sophisticated• From Wikipedia: