Via the Irreal blog I learned of professor John Kitchin’s excellent usage of Emacs, org-mode and Python to create reproducible research and books.

A good definition of reproducible research is:

“I have in the last couple of years fallen in love with org-mode and in particular with ‘reproducible research’, or living documents; the ability to have executable sections of code for generating results, which can then themselves be further analyzed by other bits of code — in other languages, if that’s appropriate – and the whole exported as a document typeset to what I consider to be high-quality standards. The fact that there is also acceptable-quality web output from the exact same process is gravy.”

– Christophe Rhodes

Here are links to professor Kitchin’s material on using Emacs + org-mode + Python for reproducible research:

• Video of presentation at SciPy2013

• Research site

• Python Computations in Science and Engineering : Complete book done using “reproducible research”

  • source for the book (everything - and reproducible - that’s the point)

• Modeling materials using density functional theory : Another complete book

  • source

I’ll be studying his books’ source.