| Time: | January 29, 2025, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
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| Meeting mode: | in presence |
| Venue: | Universität Stuttgart Abteilung SOWI VII Raum: 2.067 Seidenstr. 36 70174 Stuttgart |
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Ort: Seidenstraße 36, Raum: 2.067 (2. OG)
As part of the SOWI VII department colloquium, we are very pleased to welcome David Seseke (University of Hamburg) to join us.
"Works for me" -- DevOps for Reproducability in the Social Sciences
David Seseke, Universität Hamburg
The crisis of reproducibility, regularly diagnosed and documented in the social sciences, repeatedly demonstrates the complexity of technical systems to us. In our daily scientific work, we are confronted (usually at the most inopportune moments) with problems that can be traced back to the subtle differences between computers, programs and operators. This can affect both the laborious reproduction of studies and the unruly R script from colleagues. However, we are not alone in finding it difficult to get programs to run reliably and consistently on very different systems and in very different environments: in software development, this problem has become so serious over time due to increasingly complex toolchains that it has given rise to a separate profession: Development Operations, or DevOps for short.
In this technical and practical talk, we want to address the question of what we can learn from DevOps and how we can adapt and implement procedures for our purposes. In doing so, we want to look at a few different technologies and practices that could be suitable for different requirements in terms of reproducibility, transportability and prior knowledge, also assuming that we do not want to become DevOps. To do this, we will look at environments, Docker and Nix, and some practical examples of deployment.
Short Bio: David Seseke is a research associate at the Digital Social Science Chair at the University of Hamburg. He originally studied bionics and mechanical engineering and went on to work in construction, programming and optimization. In the meantime, he completed a second degree in sociology and political science, which led him to a new perspective on technology and, in particular, the digital. His research focuses on the interface between the state of technology and social contexts, in the context of sustainability, complexity and ideas about possible futures.
All interested parties are warmly invited. No registration is necessary.