Version Control & GitHub

When developing either application code or data science artifacts, such as Jupyter notebooks or R Markdown files, reproducibility, tracking, and collaboration depend on good use of version control software. Over the last decade, the tool git has become the most popular and default choice for version control software. Very commonly, when a distributed version control system like git is used, users also utilize a source code repository to allow others to discover and interact with a codebase more easily. Among these, GitHub is the most popular by a large margin. This course explores GitHub and how to use it for version control.