Open Science and R

Symposium and Workshop

Stockholm, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Jan 23rd - Jan 25th 2017

On the 23rd of January 2017 a symposium about Open Source systems1 see Open Source Systems in the Public Sector announcement in the public sector was held in Stockholm at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

On the 24th - 25th of January 2017 a two-day workshop2 see the “ROpenSci for all” announcement was arranged on the topic of using reproducible open research workflows with R for biodiversity analysis.

Symposium

The symposium was given during one day and materials covered included serveral talks about using open source systems in the public sector.

More details about the full programme can be found in the program announcement.3 Symposium Programme Links to presentations will be added below as presenters make their materials available …

Talks

Talks included these presentations:

Workshop

Participants in the two-day workshop - around 30 signed up - used GitHub for coordination and the presenters put their materials there including source code.6 Open Science Nordics at GitHub

Presenters

Talks, demos and exercises were prepared by:

Preparations

Participants were asked to prepare for the workshop by studying some relevant learning resources.7 see suggested readings

Topics

Talks and demonstrations included various exercises related to topics in the area of scientific computation and biodiversity analysis with R and were tailored for the participants and their specific interest.

Topics presented in talks included these:

Various exercises17 see GitHub repo with all exercises (demonstrations and/or tasks with solutions) corresponding to these topics are available, including:

Feedback

If you attended this event, please make sure to fill out this quick survey with your feedback (see link below).

Survey for feedback on “rOpenSci for all” workshop in Stockholm Jan 24th-25th 2017

It is a short and small set of 10 questions, expected to take less than 5 minutes to fill out.