Digital skills for CREST PhD students / open to IPP PhD Students

Aim: To provide PhD students foundational digital practices for research. There is no prerequisite. Primarily designed for statistic/economic/social sciences.

Date: October 15^th, 2025

Contact: emilien.schultz@ensae.fr – please register

Instructors:

• Nicolas Chopin (Professor in statistics at ENSAE)
• Émilien Schultz (Research engineer/Data scientist at CREST)

Program:

Please come with your own computer to facilitate hands on exercises

13:30 [CLI – optional] “Don’t be afraid of the command line”: a beginner introduction to CLI & Unix systems – Émilien Schultz

This session will be a quick introduction on how to use a terminal and to be autonomous with command lines. It is an important step to be fluent with scientific programing or access remote HPC servers.

14:30 [Latex] “Separate the content from form”: introduction and discussion on best Latex practices for research to format scientific articles – Nicolas Chopin

Latex is essential to the scientific publishing process. After a global introduction to the philosophy behind Latex, this session will give an overview of the tools and good practices needed during the PhD.

16h30 Break

16:45 [Git] Learning from open-source practices to improve open science: introduction to code versioning tools (Git & Github) – Émilien Schultz

Code versioning and collaborative platforms as Github are powerful tools to support your digital practices, both improving the quality and dissemination of your work. This session will introduce you the basics of code versioning and open-source practices of collaboration1

18h00 End of the afternoon