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Starting our #tidytuesday hacky hours This is our first community blog post by Openscapes Champion Allison Horst! Hi everyone! I’m Allison. I teach data analysis, statistics and presentation skills to graduate students at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara. I’m also an Openscapes Champion. In Openscapes we discuss the need to create supportive spaces, like coding clubs, for useRs to practice and grow their coding skills.

Openscapes Summit reflections 2 — Changing the way we do science

By Julie Lowndes in champions

April 25, 2019

Openscapes summit reflections 2 — Changing the way we do science This article is cross-posted on medium.com In March 2019 I witnessed environmental scientists become champions for open data science when we brought the inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions together for a summit in Santa Barbara, California. The summit was supported by Mozilla and hosted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) with the purpose of building relationships, sharing lessons learned, and igniting collaborations.

Openscapes Summit reflections — becoming champions

By Julie Lowndes in champions

April 8, 2019

Openscapes summit reflections — becoming champions This article is cross-posted on medium.com In March 2019 I witnessed environmental scientists become champions for open data science when we brought the inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions together for a summit in Santa Barbara, California. The summit was supported by Mozilla and hosted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) with the purpose of building relationships, sharing lessons learned, and igniting collaborations.

Openscapes Champions incorporate open practices in their science

By Julie Lowndes in community

March 27, 2019

Openscapes Champions incorporate open practices in their science This article was originally published on medium.com We are halfway through the Openscapes Champions program, which mentors scientists and empowers them and their labs with data science and open practices and helps grow the community of practice within the lab and beyond. This week we are meeting for a summit supported by my Mozilla Fellowship and hosted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) to strengthen relationships, share lessons learned, problem solve, and ignite new collaborations.

[Sea]side Chats for data workflows

By Julie Lowndes in community

March 10, 2019

[Sea]side Chats for data workflows Seaside Chats. Bluffside Chats. Fishbowl Chats. Bayside Chats. This is where we discuss data workflows in the lab. One of the long-term goals of Openscapes is to change the culture about how we work with data — and that requires normalizing even talking about data. We need to be able to have meaningful conversations about data and data workflows: the strategies, the struggles, the successes.

RStudio Conference culture

By Julie Lowndes in community

February 19, 2019

RStudio Conference culture I attended RStudio::conf this year and there is so much to report from a conference that gathers 1700 attendees from industry and academia and disciplines of all kinds. The conference centered around innovations, motivations, and communities around the R programming language and there are many excellent summary blogs. Here I will focus on how the conference felt, and how to think about replicating this feeling at conferences, workshops, meetings, and lab groups.

Introducing the Champions Program

By Julie Lowndes in champions

January 28, 2019

Introducing the Champions program This article was originally published on medium.com By engaging, empowering, and amplifying scientists with cross-cutting open data science approaches, Openscapes aims to create a more efficient and collaborative open culture in environmental science, to enable better science in less time. Openscapes centers around the Champions program, which is a mentorship program that empowers environmental scientists with open data science tools and grows the community of practice.

Personifying code

By Julie Lowndes in community

January 15, 2019

Personifying code Anything and everything we do to increase visibility of open practices and data science within environmental science communities is important. When we see things, it is easier to value them. Openscapes Champion Allison Horst is doing this in part through her personifyr art series. She uses her art in the classroom at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she is a lecturer of data science and statistics in an environmentally-focused graduate program, the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

So you want to learn R

By Julie Lowndes in community

December 17, 2018

So you want to learn R So you want to learn R, where do you start? There are a lot of written and video tutorials and books and blogs online, but how do you navigate them? Our Ocean Health Index team put together a list of the resources we used to learn R that helped our team’s path to better science in less time. But this might still not be helpful for where you should actually start.

Introducing Openscapes

By Julie Lowndes in community

November 20, 2018

Introducing Openscapes This article was originally published on medium.com I wrote this blog in preparation for MozFest — Mozilla’s annual festival for the open internet — October 2018, in London. I am a Mozilla Fellow, and I presented the idea of Openscapes, which will help increase the value of open practices within environmental science by engaging, empowering, and amplifying individuals. As you know, we are currently facing some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time.

Starting our #tidytuesday hacky hours

Openscapes Summit reflections 2 — Changing the way we do science

Openscapes Summit reflections — becoming champions

Openscapes Champions incorporate open practices in their science

[Sea]side Chats for data workflows

RStudio Conference culture

Introducing the Champions Program

Personifying code

So you want to learn R

Introducing Openscapes

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