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Unit: Contribution

Overview

This unit focuses on creating artifacts and contributing to open-source repositories: assembling a multi-notebook MyST document, creating pull requests, and improving content with AI assistance.

By the end of this unit, students should have:

• Created four notebooks (intro, prior-literature, original with citations, subsequent-literature)
• Assembled them into a MyST document with myst.yml TOC and bibliography
• Created a pull request to the econ-ark/ballpark repository
• Improved their notebook content using AI assistance

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Phase: Artifacts

This unit represents the Artifacts phase of the course:

• Phase 1 (Tools): Environment Setup
• Phase 2 (Skills): Research Skills
• Phase 3 (Artifacts): Contribution ← You are here

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Workflows in this unit

• Add coauthor to notebook
• Verify MyST tools
• Bibliography setup for MyST
• Add citation to paper
• Git commit and PR

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Assignments in this unit

Assignment	Deliverable
Create Intro Notebook	[name]_intro.ipynb
Create Prior-Lit Notebook	[name]_prior-literature.ipynb + citations
Create Subsequent-Lit Notebook	[name]_subsequent-literature.ipynb + citations
MyST Assembly + PR	Four notebooks + myst.yml + PR URL
AI Revision with Prompt Tracking	Improved notebook + prompt log

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Key resources

• Econ-ARK ballpark: https://github.com/econ-ark/ballpark
• MyST documentation: https://mystmd.org
• GitHub PR documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests