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Exploring collaborations: �Opportunities for data sharing and data skills training across organizations advocating for open science

Chris Battisto (he/him), NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center
Alycia Crall (she/her), The Carpentries
Elizabeth Joyner (she/her), NASA Earth Science Data Systems
Julie Lowndes, Openscapes
Erin Robinson, Metadata Game Changers LLC

5 October, 2PM ET

Community Session

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Reflection 3-2-1 - Pause & Respond

List 3 words/phrases that come to mind when you think of the data science and coding skills that researchers and practical data users need at NASA (or your institution)
Jot down 2 questions that you have regarding a collaborative effort within NASA (or your institution) with The Carpentries
Create and share 1 metaphor or simile about what you envision for a thriving Community of Carpentries instructors

Richhart et al. (2011)

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Presentations:�Openscapes, DEVELOP, and TOPS

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Teaching NASA Earthdata Cloud

… by learning as a community

NASA Award# 20-TWSC20-2-0003 Leads: Julia Stewart Lowndes & Erin Robinson

https://nasa-openscapes.github.io

NASA Openscapes

A mentor team across NASA Earth science data centers (DAACs)

Co-creating and teaching common tutorials alongside researchers as they migrate analytical workflows to the Cloud

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Robinson & Lowndes 2022

Invest in learning and trust Everyone has something to learn, ask, teach; don’t need to be an expert in everything. Cultivate psychological safety, growth mindset. Slowing down to speed up.

Flywheel

Create space and place to connect and collaborate; remove barriers to participation (paid time, part of jobs)

Empower

Learning culture

Engage

A Future Us mindset

Amplify

Open leaders

Work Openly Put what you learn into practice quickly, role- modeling sharing imperfect work. Identifying common challenges & opportunities. Documentation. Openness is a spectrum; first Future You and then Future Us.

Welcome

bright spots (be they mentors or researchers) –people who want to work better and collaborate

Leverage common workflows, skills, tools. This is where we speed up: Iterate, reuse, remix with each other and the broader community

Inspire broader research communities through celebrating people and small wins that accumulate – Open science shift

This is how we work: we’ve developed a cyclical process we talk about as the Openscapes Flywheel. We engage a Future Us mindset through welcoming and creating space and place, we Empower a learning culture by investing in learning and trust, and working openly, and we amplify open leaders by leveraging common open data science workflows, skills and tools and inspire broader scientific culture.

The Flywheel is a concept developed by Jim Collins in the book Good to Great; it’s the idea that when building something to last, there is no single defining action. Rather, the process resembles relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond. We’ve found these are the synergistic and overlapping elements for open data science movement building which we’ve tested, iterated, and refined in working with over 150 research teams since 2019. We are really focused on building habits that last, and institutional change that lasts. Let me share a few example:

https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-flywheel.html

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Reflection 3-2-1 - Pause & Respond

List 3 words/phrases that NOW come to mind when you think of the data science and coding skills that researchers and practical data users need at NASA (or your institution)
Jot down 2 questions that you NOW have regarding a collaborative effort within NASA (or your institution) with The Carpentries
Create and share 1 metaphor or simile about what you NOW envision for a thriving Community of Carpentries instructors

Richhart et al. (2011)

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Discussion/Reflection Bridge �Pause to Consider

INITIAL RESPONSE

3 words

2 questions

1 metaphor

NEW RESPONSE

3 words

2 questions

1 metaphor

BRIDGE

How do your new responses connect-to or shift-from your initial responses?

Richhart et al. (2011)

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What new ideas have emerged?

How might we…

Build Capacity in Data Science
Increase Leadership Skills
Advance Open Science Practices
Increase Problem Solving Capabilities

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Let’s Connect

Chris Battisto (he/him), NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center

christopher.m.battisto@nasa.gov, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbattisto

Alycia Crall (she/her), The Carpentries
Elizabeth Joyner (she/her), NASA Earth Science Data Systems

elizabeth.r.joyner@nasa.gov , LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-joyner-24883717/
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Julie Lowndes, Openscapes
Erin Robinson, Metadata Game Changers LLC