Bye, Mian, welcome Colin & Yash. 👋 And welcome you to the October edition of our newsletter. In this issue, we highlight what it looks like to be a data scientist at openwashdata and celebrate two new team members and their contributions.
You can also still apply to become a data steward at UKZN WASH R&D Centre in Durban, South Africa: https://openwashdata.org/pages/blog/posts/2024-09-16-ukzn-data-steward/
As the first openwashdata employee, Mian reflects on her 15 months working with us as. Learn about how she used her technical expertise to drive our R package development, and our community mobilization effort.
Read more: https://openwashdata.org/pages/blog/posts/2024-08-13-a-year-at-openwashdata/
We intened to teach our "data science for openwashdata" online course again this year, but had to acknowledge that it was not feasible amongst our other ongoing work. We hope to be back in 2025 and you will hear from us.
choleramalawiCheck it out: https://openwashdata.github.io/choleramalawi/ and welcome Yash, as our new data science intern.
Colin, our newly hired Scientific Assistant, presented the ongoing work on the washr R package at the Swiss Research Data Day 2024. Welcome to the team, Colin, and thank you for this great contribution. 🚀
Access his slides here: https://openwashdata.org/pages/gallery/slides/
Also new in our team is Yash, who is doing an internship with us until end of February 2025. Within his first weeks, he pulled together all our dark data is working on visualizing it through dashboards. Ah, he also already published an R package: https://openwashdata.github.io/choleramalawi/
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: