☀️ In this newsletter, we celebrate our first-ever openwashdata hackathon, 20 graduates from our first "data science for openwashdata" course, and a mathematician's internship experience in WASH.
🚀 First Data Package Hackathon Success
On June 21st, openwashdata successfully hosted the first data package hackathon. Six data enthusiasts gathered in Zurich to work on diverse WASH datasets from countries like Malawi 🇲🇼, Uganda 🇺🇬, Brazil 🇧🇷, Peru 🇵🇪, and Ghana 🇬🇭. In a hands-on session, Mian Zhong introduced the participants to the openwashdata workflow of data package development. Within just 8 hours, every participant delivered an impressive data package.
Curious about what they achieved or the secrets behind the workflow? Discover the showcase and insights
🎓 Congrats to 20 graduates
Congratulations! By completing a capstone project, we have 20 graduates for our first "data science for openwashdata". The capstone projects are fully reproducible, and all data and code for analysis are shared through GitHub. The project report shows which competencies the participants have gained in R, the tidyverse and Quarto and their ability to apply these skills to real-world problems. The projects cover diverse WASH topics with data from various regions and sources.
Convince yourself and check out our graduates' public capstone projects: https://openwashdata.org/pages/academy/graduates/
openwashdata Blog: My data science internship with the openwashdata team
What is an insider look at openwashdata? What does the journey look like for a math student venturing into the field of WASH? In this blog post, you will find the experience and learnings of a 4-month internship at openwashdata and Global Health Engineering group from Margaux.
Get Involved
We believe the openwashdata project prospers when we have YOU work together and promote open science and data practice! No matter what background you are from, we come up with some ways for you to get involved:
- Join our chatroom to meet people!
- Share your WASH data with us
- Spread the word. Forward this email.
- Got more ideas? Leave us a message on Matrix to collaborate!