Introduction

The team has access to a server, LEON, allowing us to store all our data as well as any file. This is probably the most important tool of the team.
First you need to follow the tutorial to have acces to the LKB network: Usefool tools.
It is very important to master it in order to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and to work efficiently.
The real challenge is: how to organise our data?

Data

Here is an example of how the repository should looks:

EQ15B/LEON-15B/DATA/your_team/year/the_project/topic/date

By "topic" here, we mean for instance the type of measurement.

The goal of this tree structure is to minimize the span of the tree.

What do we mean by this ?

You will notice that if you reverse the tree and do the chronological ordering higher up in the tree, the span will grow exponentially with time, which will quickly become unwieldy.

Furthermore, if someone is looking through your data, it is not clear what kind of measurement is in each folder.

In the same spirit, data processing output should be placed at the same location as the data !

This is an example of how to do your organisation but of course you also have to pay attention to the tree structure to store your presentations (slides) or figures that others might have to use, posters (svg files), etc...
For your data that you want to keep only for yourself it is possible to use your own available users file (ex: mabobaker).

Codes

When you start an experiment, you will have to write a class encapsulating all of the routines that you have in your experiment (as can be explained here for example).

You should create a GitHub repository in the group's organization Quantum-Optics-LKB with your code.

Obviously, while it might be challenging in the beginning to document the code extensively, you should try to keep it as humanly readable as possible.

For this, you should follow PEEP8 guidelines, and systematically type all your functions and add docstrings. Here is an example:

def add_two_integers(a: int, b: int) -> int:
  """Adds two integers
    Args:
      a (int): The first integer
      b (int): The second integer
    Returns:
      int: The sum of the two numbers

  """
  return a+b

Obviously, this is an example in Python, and you will have to adapt it for the different languages. Furthermore, since Python has no static typing, this is merely to help the user (and in some cases the interpreter).