Building
communities of practice around environmental open data science
Art by @allison_horst
Julia Stewart Lowndes, PhD
Mozilla Fellow & Marine Data Scientist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
University of California at Santa Barbara
lowndes@nceas.ucsb.edu; @juliesquid
slides: openscapes.org/media
Hi, I’m a marine ecologist
and open data science has been game-changing for my science and my life
#rstats
Humboldt squid! Photo by Greg Auger
Optional - Speaker to add their slides here (2 max)
Environmental open data science communities
Empowering environmental science labs
Enabling international ocean science & policy teams
ohi-science.org
@OHIScience
openscapes.org
@openscapes
Open data science improves working as a team
Open data science enables local ocean teams
My OHI open data science journey
pics of me at these things!! teaching at eco-data-sci
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How do we welcome & empower more (environmental) scientists with open data science?
How can we help science labs work like teams?
OPENSCAPES
CHAMPIONS PROGRAM
5-month remote program à la Mozilla Open Leaders
Discipline agnostic: openscapes.org/series
CHAMPIONS COHORT 1
OUTCOMES
In four months we’ve already seen:
Lab GitHub organizations, CoCs, & protocols
Normalizing talking about open data science
Joining & leading communities outside the lab
First RLadies chapter in New Jersey!
Being ambassadors & engaging with #rstats Twitter
New scientific collaborations
Manuscript in prep!
So many other wins to measure & share
I am championing open data science in faculty meetings • I said we’re doing our students a disservice • I’m asking to hire lecturer positions • I enabled labs to have seaside chats • we are developing onboarding plans • I support my students starting hacky hours • we now take lab meeting notes in google docs, openscapes style! • our lab tech will teach a new data science course • we have a code of conduct! • us too! • all this is something I’ve worried about a lot and feeling better about it • all our lab protocols are now on GitHub • I reorganized my teaching materials so it’s better next year • all my capstone students are using GitHub for their analyses • I'm now pushing GitHub on all my collaborators • we have a more open culture • I organized and put all my teaching materials online • I didn’t realize there would be so much to talk about • we have a shared lab Google Drive • we developed a way to offboard our undergrads • my lab has put all our scripts online • we are going to have a lab hackathon • thank you for saying the code of conduct on each call • I didn’t know about #rstats twitter • these efficiency tips save me so much time • I taught a course from R4DS, learning the night before • I want to do everything a bit better • I reran my collaborator’s code! • we improved our documentation • we improved our metadata • this saved me so much time • everyone in our lab now has a GitHub account • I led a discussion on data sharing practices for our lab • we are now officially an open science lab • I’m going to put all my teaching materials online • I am starting an RLadies chapter • I organized our lab’s code on GitHub • I feel a part of something bigger • I will start teaching R in my classes • I thought I was utterly incapable of learning GitHub • this happened just at the right time • this isn’t just about coding & GitHub, it’s about changing the way we do science
Challenges
Challenges
Ideas
Julia Stewart Lowndes, PhD
http://jules32.github.io
lowndes@nceas.ucsb.edu
@juliesquid
openscapes.org ohi-science.org
@openscapes @ohi-science
slides: openscapes.org/media
Thank You
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