Market Data Analysis Using JMP

Documentation and Reproducibility

Why Worry about Documentation and Reproducibility?

Documentation and reproducibility are two separate but connected tasks that are important in any research project. I chose to put them first in the list because they must be planned before research begins and actively pursued while research is conducted. Trying to recall what was done afterward is a daunting task usually subordinated to the other daunting tasks of research. Researchers typically get to them after the work is done but at this point they’re incomplete at best and error prone at worse.

Documentation is the logging of important steps in the research process including data sources, important transformations, and analyses used to answer to a client’s ...