
#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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How to Use Github to Improve Your Code
I think I slook you can speak to this you've been thinking about questions like the social cost of carbon these are questions which involve lots of complicated inputs. And often injecting you know guesswork where it's hard to find hard evidence but then there is a bottom line number and you can imagine if you know someone was hosting their attempt at this a problem like this on GitHub. It's maybe like or maybe it's like a jupiter notebook you go through you say oh you know I kind of maybe disagree with this the estimate this discount rate this right? You're basically creating work for yourself by having to do those analysis yourself. If your reports came with a piece of code on github people
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