Peter Alping
March 23, 2017
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Re:Re:Re:Fw:Re: very_important_report_v39.docx
Use dedicated version-control software
Git[3], Subversion[4], Mercurial[5]
Use a markup language instead of a word processor
Markdown[9,10], LaTeX[11]
# Title
A very interesting paragraph.
## Subtitle
List of items:
- Item 1 is regular
- *Item 2 is italic*
- **Item 3 is bold**
Citations are easy as well: [@Krewinkel2016]
Use an open web-based format for presentations
reveal.js[12], shower[13], impress[14], deck.js[15]
Use open statistical software
R[21], Python[22]
Use the open bibliography software
Zotero[26]
Common to use MS Word[8] or MS PowerPoint[28]
…this is not ideal…
Use open software designed for graphics
[1] Dropbox. Dropbox 2017. https://www.dropbox.com/.
[2] Google. Google docs 2017. https://www.google.com/docs/about/.
[3] Git. Git 2017. https://git-scm.com/.
[4] Apache. Apache subversion 2017. https://subversion.apache.org/.
[5] Mercurial. Mercurial 2017. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/.
[6] GitHub. GitHub 2017. https://github.com/.
[7] Atlassian. Bitbucket 2017. https://bitbucket.org/.
[8] Microsoft. Microsoft word 2017. https://products.office.com/en/word.
[9] Wikipedia. Markdown 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown.
[10] Krewinkel A, Winkler R. Formatting open science: Agile creation of multiple document types by writing academic manuscripts in pandoc markdown. PeerJ Preprints 2016. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2648v2.
[11] LaTeX. LaTeX 2017. https://www.latex-project.org/.
[12] hakimel. Reveal.js 2017. https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/.
[13] shower. Shower 2017. https://github.com/shower/shower.
[14] impress. Impress.js 2017. https://github.com/impress/impress.js.
[15] imakewebthings. Deck.js 2017. https://github.com/imakewebthings/deck.js.
[16] Giphy. Chris Pratt - Surprised GIF 2017.
[17] SASInstitute. SAS 2017. https://www.sas.com/.
[18] StataCorp. STATA 2017. http://www.stata.com/.
[19] IBM. SPSS 2017. https://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/spss/.
[20] Microsoft. Excel 2017. https://products.office.com/en/excel.
[21] R. R: The r project for statistical computing 2017. https://www.r-project.org/.
[22] Python. Python 2017. https://www.python.org/.
[23] Wikipedia. Comma-separated values 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values.
[24] VeraCrypt. VeraCrypt 2017. https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/.
[25] ClarivateAnalytics. EndNote 2017. http://endnote.com/.
[26] Zotero. Zotero 2017. https://www.zotero.org/.
[27] Wikipedia. BibTeX 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX.
[28] Microsoft. Microsoft powerpoint 2017. https://products.office.com/en/powerpoint.
[29] Inkscape. Inkscape 2017. https://inkscape.org/.
[30] GIMP. GNU image manipulation program 2017. https://www.gimp.org/.
[31] Blender. Blender 2017. https://www.blender.org/.