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.
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 included these presentations:
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
Talks, demos and exercises were prepared by:
Participants were asked to prepare for the workshop by studying some relevant learning resources.7 see suggested readings
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:
dplyr
and tidyr
- an example with data wrangling involving data in spreadsheet format18 see use case with local data - Swedish Butterfly dataSome suggested links on topics related to Reproducible Open Research:
“The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and … attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency.”
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.