Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation

Why HN readers recommended it

Repeatedly recommended as the canonical demo of org-mode for literate programming and reproducible research.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Enthought

Topic

reproducible research

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2018

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From the original HN conversations

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• A lot of people are starting to use org-mode for that kind of thing. Fully reproducible research in a single file. To check the work, just export the file to pdf/html/etc., or "C-c C-c" the code blocks as you read through in org-mode. It's fantastic. …

• The Orgmode extension to Emacs has quite an elegant, flexible, and powerful way of doing what you want. Can be hard to wrap your mind around at the beginning but has good payoff once you're up to speed. Here's a video showing how one guy …

• I know it gets said a lot, but have you considered emacs and org-mode. Because, it goes a very long way for this. See this great talk showing its use with python. [VIDEO]