How physicists at CERN use GitHub to analyze data

Batoul Diab shares how the ALICE collaboration at CERN uses GitHub to work on open source code for analyzing large physics datasets, highlighting shared repositories, peer review, and how distributed teams coordinate their work.

Overview

At CERN, the ALICE collaboration uses GitHub to support collaborative research software work for physics data analysis.

Key points covered:

• Shared code on GitHub to enable collaboration across a global research community.
• Peer review / code review workflows to improve quality and correctness of analysis code.
• Global teamwork practices that help coordinate contributions from many participants.
• Use of open source approaches to make collaboration and reuse easier across the project.