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<p>Woods Hole Data-Mongers:</p>
<p><b>Open Science Doubleheader on Wednesday, October 24</b></p>
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<p><b>10am, Village Campus, Redfield Auditorium: "The power of open
science: experience from the Ocean Health Index"</b> by Dr.
Julia Stewart Lowndes, Mozilla Fellow and marine data scientist at
the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</p>
<p>Abstract: Our Ocean Health Index team has dramatically improved
our science and its impact by embracing open/data science. We now
borrow practices from software developers, coding collaboratively
in a way that is more reproducible, transparent, collaborative,
and open, with more emphasis on communication. Because of this,
more than 20 international groups are building off our science and
our code for data-driven ocean management around the world. We’ve
shared our story in a recent publication in Nature Ecology &
Evolution (Lowndes et al. 2017) because at the time we were
intimidated to change our practices, but we are living proof that
it’s possible and beneficial. By describing specific tools and how
we incrementally began using them for the Ocean Health Index
project, we hope to encourage others in the scientific community
to do the same — so we can all produce better science in less
time.<br>
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Bio: As Science Program Lead for the Ocean Health Index (OHI), Dr.
Julia Stewart Lowndes works to bridge marine science, data
science, and management, and leads trainings through OHI, NCEAS,
Software Carpentry, RLadies, and Eco-Data-Science.<br>
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<p>Sponsored by WHOI Biology Dept. and Ocean Informatics initiative.<br>
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<p><b>Noon, Quissett Campus, Clark 507: Lunch and Learn on Jupyter
Notebooks</b> by Joe Futrelle (WHOI IS)</p>
<p>The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source browser-based environment
for developing and documenting code, exploring data, and sharing
your work in the form of executable "notebooks". It provides
several novel features compared to most development environments,
including mixing executable code and documentation, embedding
interactive visualizations, and support for rich text with
equation rendering.</p>
<p>Although Jupyter is Python-based, it supports dozens of other
programming languages, and enables the use of multiple languages
within a single notebook. Popular websites such as GitHub provide
ways of sharing and viewing Jupyter notebooks, and tools such as
JupyterHub enable hosting Jupyter notebooks. This presentation
will give an overview of Jupyter, demonstrate some examples, and
discuss pros and cons of the notebook approach.</p>
<p> Limited Pizza will be available. Sponsored by WHOI IS.</p>
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Stace E. Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist, Biology Dept.
MS #34, Redfield 104
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stace@whoi.edu">stace@whoi.edu</a>
Tel +1 508 289 3536, Skype stace.beaulieu
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu">http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu</a>
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