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From: myglc2@gmail.com
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:33:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861shldmx4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m18tbt1dx9.fsf@ordinateur-de-catherine--konrad.home> (Konrad Hinsen's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:28:34 +0100")

Hi Konrad,

On 02/16/2018 at 10:28 Konrad Hinsen writes:

> Whether for software or for data, dependencies are DAGs whose terminal
> nodes are measuremnts (for data) or human-supplied information (code,
> parameters, methodological choices). Guix handles the latter very well.
>
> The three missing pieces are:
>
>  - Dealing with measurements, which might involve interacting with
>    experimental equipment or databases. Moreover, since data from
>    such sources can change, its hash in the store must be computed
>    from the contents, not just from the reference to the contents.

Why not "enclose" a measurement set and it's provenance in a git
"package"?

- George

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-16 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09 16:32 Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science Amirouche Boubekki
2018-02-09 17:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-09 17:48   ` zimoun
2018-02-09 19:15   ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-09 23:01     ` zimoun
2018-02-09 23:17       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-12 11:46       ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-14  4:43         ` Do you use packages in Guix to run neural networks? Fis Trivial
2018-02-14  6:07           ` Pjotr Prins
2018-02-14  7:27             ` Fis Trivial
2018-02-14  8:04           ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-10  9:51     ` Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science Amirouche Boubekki
2018-02-10 11:28       ` zimoun
2018-02-14 13:06     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-15 17:10       ` zimoun
2018-02-16  9:28         ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-16 14:33           ` myglc2 [this message]
2018-02-16 15:20             ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-16 12:41         ` Amirouche Boubekki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-02-16 16:43 Amirouche Boubekki
2018-02-17 22:21 ` Roel Janssen
2018-02-18 23:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-19  7:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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