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(Zara Hassan) _You’ve shared your code. You’ve shared your data.…so why can’t anyone reproduce your results?_
In real-world research projects, reproducibility often breaks in subtle ways, missing dependencies, unclear workflows, undocumented steps, or environments that no longer work. These issues don’t appear all at once; they emerge gradually as research evolves. In this talk, I introduce the idea of Reproducibility Debt as a way to understand how these issues accumulate over time. Importantly, this debt is not simply the result of poor practice, it reflects real-world constraints such as time pressure, experimentation, and shifting project goals. While reproducibility is often framed as a technical problem, solved through tools like Docker, Conda, or better documentation, it is in reality a multi-faceted challenge shaped by the interaction between technical, organisational, and human factors. Rather than focusing on technical fixes alone, this talk takes a socio-technical perspective: how decisions, trade-offs, and team practices influence reproducibility outcomes. I will show how reproducibility can be approached as something to understand, assess, and manage throughout a project, rather than something to fix at the end.
The talk introduces a lightweight way of identifying and tracking reproducibility risks based on a structured view of common contributing factors. If you have ever struggled to rerun your own code, or someone else’s, this talk offers a different way to think about why, and what to do about it.
https://2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/ZPGW8C/
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PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
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Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Sat Aug 29 10:45:00 2026 AEST (UTC+10) at Ballroom 2
(Zara Hassan) _You’ve shared your code. You’ve shared your data.…so why can’t anyone reproduce your results?_
In real-world research projects, reproducibility often breaks in subtle ways, missing dependencies, unclear workflows, undocumented steps, or environments that no longer work. These issues don’t appear all at once; they emerge gradually as research evolves. In this talk, I introduce the idea of Reproducibility Debt as a way to understand how these issues accumulate over time. Importantly, this debt is not simply the result of poor practice, it reflects real-world constraints such as time pressure, experimentation, and shifting project goals. While reproducibility is often framed as a technical problem, solved through tools like Docker, Conda, or better documentation, it is in reality a multi-faceted challenge shaped by the interaction between technical, organisational, and human factors. Rather than focusing on technical fixes alone, this talk takes a socio-technical perspective: how decisions, trade-offs, and team practices influence reproducibility outcomes. I will show how reproducibility can be approached as something to understand, assess, and manage throughout a project, rather than something to fix at the end.
The talk introduces a lightweight way of identifying and tracking reproducibility risks based on a structured view of common contributing factors. If you have ever struggled to rerun your own code, or someone else’s, this talk offers a different way to think about why, and what to do about it.
https://2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/ZPGW8C/
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Sat Aug 29 10:45:00 2026 AEST (UTC+10) at Ballroom 2
