Ad hoc analysis - private & exploratory
Alice is an data analyst / computational scientist starting a new project. She creates a folder in her linux home directory and populates it with a set of files (e.g. starting raw data) obtained from Bob, her biologist friend. She starts some exploratory statistical analysis in an interactive R session.
Benefits (from Justin)
Organization. Notebook for future self.
Access in multiple environments.
Ad hoc analysis - Collaborative
After some time she arrives at some preliminary findings she wants to share with a biologist (Bob) she is collaborating with. At this point she creates a new Synapse project. At OS command line, she runs a command like:
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