Version Control of Data with DataLad

Session 06

Starts at:

14:00

Slides Exercises on Binder The DataLad Handbook

This session

Follow the exercises via Binder:

Learning objectives

At the end of this session, you should have achieved the following learning objectives:

Introduction to DataLad

💡 You know how to configure your username and email address in Git.
💡 You can create a new DataLad dataset.
💡 You know how to check the status of a DataLad dataset.
💡 You can save data in a DataLad dataset.
💡 You know about different configurations of DataLad datasets.

Nesting with DataLad

💡 You can install an existing DataLad dataset as a subdataset.
💡 You can get and drop data in a DataLad dataset as needed.
💡 You know how to navigate nested DataLad datasets.
💡 You know how to access data in nested DataLad datasets recursively.

Provenance with DataLad

💡 You can link analyses to inputs and outputs using DataLad.
💡 You can execute a rerun of a previous analysis with DataLad
💡 You know how to establish provenance and reproducibility using DataLad.

Slides

To export the slides to PDF, do the following:

  1. Toggle into Print View using the E key (or using the Navigation Menu).
  2. Open the in-browser print dialog (CTRL/CMD+P).
  3. Change the Destination setting to Save as PDF.
  4. Change the Layout to Landscape.
  5. Change the Margins to None.
  6. Enable the Background graphics option.
  7. Click Save.

Note: This feature has been confirmed to work in Google Chrome, Chromium as well as in Firefox.

Here’s what the Chrome print dialog would look like with these settings enabled:

Screenshot of Chrome print dialog with the first slide/page of 43 shown on the left, and print options on the right. The Destination print option has Save as PDF selected.

These instructions were copied from the Quarto documentation (MIT License) and slightly modified.

Cheatsheet

See here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datalad-handbook/artwork/master/src/datalad-cheatsheet.pdf