Reproducible Quantitative Methods
Lesson 10
Topics and Resources
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Free learning period
I will be away this Thursday, doing exciting things in exciting places, but I've shifted content around a bit to help keep you busy. Your primary mission is to push your projects forward as much as possible, but I would also like you to spend some time with materials introducing you to participatory models of science. We're going to start with a biomedical example, because I find this particularly compelling. Please read this post by Jason Bobe, a biomedical researcher and Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Jason and I met through the Mozilla Fellows program, and he's devoted his career to bringing together biomedical researchers, patients and doctors to get a more holistic understanding (but not in the woo-woo way) of human health- that can only be realized by approaching medical research using open frameworks. In lieu of a lecture in class this week, please watch Jason's talk from last year.
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Project Management on Github
With regards to specific project progress, I would like you to meet with your group members sometime during the week and populate your github repos with a specific task list, detailing the steps you need to take to complete your projects. In class on Tuesday, we will start this process with an activity, detailed below.
Exercises
- Github issues
Use github issues to create a list of things to do for your paper, and assign tasks to group members. If you need a github referesher, this workshop can help guide you in setting up your whole project in github. Basically, what I want to see is a task list that can hold us all accountable to get our projects rounded out and ready to go!
ProTip
A helpful hint from those that came before
Call them out Call group members out specifically using their @[user] usernames on github! They’ll get alerts about their assignments, so there’s no forgetting :)
Discussion
Participatory models for bigger science
With increased connectivity, we have the opportunity to bring our work to audiences that have never been engaged in science before. This is a good opportunity for students to explore the differences in participatory models between fields, and discuss what engagement means in different fields. We provide a more extreme example, with participatory biomedical research- how do we engage people in our work when the direct ties to their well-being are more tenuous? Next week we'll look at participatory models in ecology.
Reading
Expanding citizen science models to enhance open innovation
Questions
How can we use participatory models for research in our field?
How would citizen science engagement differ between fields?
What can we do to motivate people to participate in science?
Navigate
Free learning period
I will be away this Thursday, doing exciting things in exciting places, but I've shifted content around a bit to help keep you busy. Your primary mission is to push your projects forward as much as possible, but I would also like you to spend some time with materials introducing you to participatory models of science. We're going to start with a biomedical example, because I find this particularly compelling. Please read this post by Jason Bobe, a biomedical researcher and Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Jason and I met through the Mozilla Fellows program, and he's devoted his career to bringing together biomedical researchers, patients and doctors to get a more holistic understanding (but not in the woo-woo way) of human health- that can only be realized by approaching medical research using open frameworks. In lieu of a lecture in class this week, please watch Jason's talk from last year.
Project Management on Github
With regards to specific project progress, I would like you to meet with your group members sometime during the week and populate your github repos with a specific task list, detailing the steps you need to take to complete your projects. In class on Tuesday, we will start this process with an activity, detailed below.
Use github issues to create a list of things to do for your paper, and assign tasks to group members. If you need a github referesher, this workshop can help guide you in setting up your whole project in github. Basically, what I want to see is a task list that can hold us all accountable to get our projects rounded out and ready to go!
ProTip
A helpful hint from those that came before
Call them out Call group members out specifically using their @[user] usernames on github! They’ll get alerts about their assignments, so there’s no forgetting :)
Participatory models for bigger science
With increased connectivity, we have the opportunity to bring our work to audiences that have never been engaged in science before. This is a good opportunity for students to explore the differences in participatory models between fields, and discuss what engagement means in different fields. We provide a more extreme example, with participatory biomedical research- how do we engage people in our work when the direct ties to their well-being are more tenuous? Next week we'll look at participatory models in ecology.
Reading
Expanding citizen science models to enhance open innovation
Questions
How can we use participatory models for research in our field?
How would citizen science engagement differ between fields?
What can we do to motivate people to participate in science?