Git and GitHub for Social Science Research - basic level

• Library

Keep track of changes in your research efficiently and effectively

Whether you are swamped among multiple revisions of your work or you wish to be more effective and efficient in keeping track of changes in your research (textual documents, code and data), the Git versioning system and its online component Github will certainly help you in the process.

Please join us in this session on Git and Github, where the basis of the two systems will be introduced by means of practical examples. You will be able to complete the basic steps to set up Git on your computer during the course, or reproduce them afterwards.

Covered topics:

• What is a versioning system (like Git)
• Setting up your computer to work with Git and GitHub (GitHub Desktop, VS Code and R Studio)
• How to track changes in your research with Git and GitHub
• How to look at the history of your work

This training will include practical work and you are invited to:

• Bring your laptop
• Install Git in advance: https://git-scm.com/install/
• Install GitHub Desktop in advance: https://desktop.github.com/download/

Instructors:

• Mathieu Dubied, SPS Researcher
• Simone Sacchi, Research Data Librarian

Location: Stockholm meeting room, first floor, EUI Library. 

This session is the first part of a two-part training on Git and GitHub. If you wish, you can also register for second session Git and GitHub for Social Science Research - intermediate level