RepliMAT @ CW24: MATLAB Project Templates for Success

Gaurav Bhalerao, Dan Cummins, Paddy Roddy,
Michael Tso, David Wilby

Thu 2nd May 2024

The Team!

The problem

• 🤓 MATLAB is really popular with researchers
• 🧑‍💻 Not so much with RSEs
• 😖 There is limited guidance on good practice
• 🧑‍🔧 So lots of MATLAB-based research could be more reproducible & sustainable

The solution

📖 Guidance for researchers via a handbook/course.

🎉 Enter: repliMAT!

♻️ A guide for reproducible MATLAB projects

Hack day!

Templates for MATLAB project organisation!

matlab-project-template

📖 repliMAT: project organisation chapter

Project Organisation

Encouraging good practice via project organisation

e.g.

• Keep raw data separate from processed data and only change programatically,
• Documentation
• Tests
• Readme
• Licenses

Documenting Dependencies

MATLAB’s dependency ecosystem is highly heterogeneous