[Data-Mongers] Open Science Doubleheader on Wednesday, October 24

[Stace Beaulieu]

Woods Hole Data-Mongers:

*Open Science Doubleheader on Wednesday, October 24*

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*10am, Village Campus, Redfield Auditorium: "The power of open science: 
experience from the Ocean Health Index"* by Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes, 
Mozilla Fellow and marine data scientist at the National Center for 
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

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.

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.

Sponsored by WHOI Biology Dept. and Ocean Informatics initiative.

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*Noon, Quissett Campus, Clark 507: Lunch and Learn on Jupyter Notebooks* 
by Joe Futrelle (WHOI IS)

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.

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.

Limited Pizza will be available. Sponsored by WHOI IS.

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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 stace at whoi.edu
Tel +1 508 289 3536, Skype stace.beaulieu
http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu

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