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

[Stace Beaulieu]

A reminder for tomorrow, looking forward to both:


On 10/10/2018 4:03 PM, Stace Beaulieu wrote:
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> Woods Hole Data-Mongers:
>
> *Open Science Doubleheader on Wednesday, October 24*
>
> *--*
>
> *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.
>
> *--**
> *
>
> *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
> Emailstace at whoi.edu
> Tel +1 508 289 3536, Skype stace.beaulieu
> http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu

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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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