This week’s post is a reblog of a post by Daniel S. Katz, Sandra Gesing, Olivier Philippe, and Simon Hettrick on the URSSI blog at http://urssi.us/blog/2018/06/21/results-from-a-us-survey-about-research-software-engineers/, and reproduced here with the permission of Dan Katz.
First, some summary stats from the survey tweeted by Dan Katz:
90% write software that contributes to published research
82% don’t have hand-over plans...
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