Translating the book into Chinese and expanding our content at this week's Book Dash
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Hello Turing Way friends!
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Attend our next Collaboration Cafe on 19 February 2020, at 19:00 GMT (your time zone). Thanks to our friends, Naomi Penfold and Stafanie Butland, for mentioning this co-working event on their blog post - Online Co-working Partnerships are Community of Practice in Action.
Shout out to Ang Li and Yini He for translating 4 chapters of The Turing Way into Chinese. Thanks to Tony Yang who is establishing a system within the project to facilitate an effective translation process in Chinese. They invite more members from the community to join them in their effort by translating The Turing Way in Chinese or other languages.
We are delighted to announce that we will be welcoming 15 of members at the book dash on 20 and 21 February, and The Turing Way team are looking for a community member to give a short workshop at NeuroDoWo in Cologne, Germany in August.
Read about this great opportunity, meet the book dash participants, and so much more below 👇
Community meetings
Collaboration Cafes
Join us at the next collaboration cafe on 19 February at 19:00 GMT (your time zone). Sign up on this HackMD.
These online meetings are held using the Pomodoro Technique to co-work without distractions to add your contributions to The Turing Way project. These contributions can be from fixing bugs to reviewing existing chapters or adding your own content to the book. The Turing Way team members will be present to help you troubleshoot and answer your questions.
Thanks to the positive response from our past attendees, we will continue to hold these working hours on the first Wednesday at 15:00 GMT and third Wednesday at 19:00 GMT of each month. You can see the exact date and time for the next few sessions on this GitHub page.
News from the community
Congratulations to our 15 selected book dash participants!
We are excited to announce that 15 members have been invited to attend the upcoming book dash hosted at The Alan Turing Institute, London from 20 to 21 February 2020. These members are (listed alphabetically): Adina Wagner, Alex Chan, Anna Hadjitofi, Arielle Bennett, Barbara Vreede, Christina Hitrova, Esther Plomp, Frances Madden, Heidi Seibold, Kesson Magid, Martina G. Vilas, Mateusz Kuzak, Nathan Begbie, Nicolás Alessandroni, and Tony Yang 💖 🙌 🚀 🌟
One of the past attendees, Jade Pickering will be returning as a helper along with the core contributors Louise Bowler and Sarah Gibson. Those who are not located in London have also received travel and accommodation support from The Turing Way project. We are looking forward to welcoming them and working with them in person!
Your comments are needed on the rubric for selection
An open call for applications was opened in December 2019 for the book dash, inviting ideas from the interested candidates for their contributions to The Turing Way project. They were also asked to justify how they will benefit from their participation at this event. We adapted the Mozilla Open Leadership selection rubric for ranking and scoring all the applications. This rubric is currently available in pull request #804. We welcome your comments and suggestions on this rubric for the selection process in our future events.
Translating The Turing Way into additional languages
Ang Li and Yini He have translated four initial chapters of The Turing Way in Chinese. These researchers from China are spending a year in The Alan Turing Institute in the Whitaker Lab and are working on different topics in the neurobiology field while contributing to The Turing Way project.
Read the full thread on Twitter
Tony Yang, who is conducting his PhD research at Imperial College London, has set out to develop standardised guidelines and infrastructure for translation efforts in Chinese and other languages within the community. He will be working with The Turing Way team members during the book dash in integrating this workflow in the main project pipeline.
A past book dash attendee, Camila Rangel-Smith and her colleague Reina Camacho Toro have expressed interest in beginning to translate a few existing chapters in Spanish.
We are so grateful for their work so far and invite our Chinese- and Spanish-speaking members to join this effort. Join the discussion on this GitHub issue.
Relevant Resources
The Turing Way on twitter
We are finally on Twitter and have been thoroughly enjoying reading your tweets about us (previously tagged with #TuringWay). Within hours of its launch 2 weeks ago, we gained over 100 followers and have managed to connect with 400 followers at the time of writing. Please follow the account turingway for updates on the project and learn what our members are up to.
Open Research Calendar
The Open Research Calendar is a Google Calendar and twitter bot that collects exciting events related to Open Research.
The calendar's creators Alexandra Lautarescu, Bradley Kennedy, Cassandra Gould van Praag and Esther Plomp built this fantastic tool at the "Advanced Methods in Reproducible Science" workshop (better known as #Repro2020) in January 2020 based on an idea initially generated by attendees of #Repro2019. Find out more about their work at https://openresearchcalendar.github.io/Open-Research-Calendar.
Follow the Twitter bot @OpenResearchCal and add events to the calendar at http://tinyurl.com/New-Event.
FAIR Cookbook
Inspired by The Turing Way Phillipe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone and Andrea Splendiani have created the FAIR cookbook as a Jupyter Book!
Learn how to contribute to this open source project through their contributing guidelines.
See the tweet thread by Susanna about the project here
Neurohackademy
If you or someone you know works with brain imaging data, we really recommend applying to attend Neurohackademy. This two weeks hands on summer institute in neuroimaging and data science is held at the University of Washington eScience Institute from 27 July to 7 August 2020. Participants will learn about technologies used to analyze human neuroscience data, and to make analysis and results shareable and reproducible.
The deadline to apply is 1 March 2020.
Tips & Tricks for new contributors
Wondering how getting involved with this community influences our contributors? Our core contributors share their experiences as "impact statements".
This month we want to highlight the impact statements by Louise Bowler and Sarah Gibson.
Louise started to contribute to this project as part of the Turing's Reproducible Research Champions programme. She worked on improving the reproducibility of recent papers written by Turing researchers, a write-up for which will appear at the end of the relevant chapters, with links to the code and guidance on how to set up and use the projects.
"The Turing Way is the first large-scale open source project that I've been part of, and I found it a very positive experience. The enthusiasm we were met with each time we presented the project has definitely encouraged me towards adopting more open working practices in the future." - Louise Bowler
Sarah started by providing technical support to the project for reproducible computational environments and the Champions project by using Binder and BinderHub.
"By being a visible member of the team at a range of research-based events, I have been able to champion reproducibility, The Turing Way and Binder projects throughout the research community and disseminate the lessons I've learned through the workshops I've presented." - Sarah Gibson
We would love to hear from you!
If you are able to share your impact story, please get in touch or send a pull request for your impact statement to be included here.
Requests for your help
NeuroDoWo
NeuroDoWo - the Neurobiology Doctoral Students Workshop - is an annual, student-organized meeting covering a wide range of topics and with a vision to educate and empower fellow young researchers. This years meeting is organized in Cologne, Germany and will take place from the 19 to 21 August.
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, on behalf of the organising team, has asked if a member of The Turing Way community could lead a short workshop on the relevance, challenges and opportunities of open and reproducible research.
Kirstie has given lots of talks about The Turing Way and her goal for 2020 is to have twice as many other people give talks about the project than herself. This is a really great opportunity for any community member who has contributed to the project to get some 1:1 coaching with Kirstie, practice their presentation skills (reusing slides or making their own), travel to Cologne, and meet and influence the next generation of world leading researchers.
There is funding available to support travel and accommodation at the event and you do not need to work in the field of neuroscience to give this talk.
Please reply to theturingway@gmail.com before 2 March if you would like to discuss giving this presentation and leading the discussion. Thank you in advance for helping grow and promote our community 🙏 ✨
Acknowledgements and celebrations
Binder Demo at PyData Cambridge
Sarah Gibson delivered a talk and tutorial on the topic "Reproducible Research: An Introduction to The Turing Way and Binder" at the PyData Cambridge - 16th Meetup on 29 January 2020. The tutorial materials are available here and are suitable for all programming levels.
Boost your Research Reproducibility workshop at British Antarctic Survey
Picture credit to Scott Hosking
Kirstie Whitaker held a "Boost your Research Reproducibility with Binder" workshop at the British Antarctic Survey, which was organised by Dr Anita Faul in Cambridge on 31 January 2020 for the institute members. Huge thank you to Anita for organising such a great workshop, and to the participants for their engagement and grace during a Python 2 end of life challenge!
Read a complete report from this workshop here.
Open MR Benelux
Kirstie, Malvika and Turing Way community member Cassandra Gould van Praag all presented at OpenMR Benelux in Nijmegen in January 2020.
Slides for their talks are already online and the videos will be coming soon!
- The Turing Way: Reproducible, Inclusive, Collaborative Data Science, Kirstie Whitaker: 10.5281/zenodo.3615258
- Analytical Flexibility and Questionable Research Practices in MRI, Cassandra Gould van Praag: 10.5281/zenodo.3614070
- Fostering Open and Inclusive Communities, Malvika Sharan: Slides on Speakerdeck
We'd like to particularly thank the organisers of OpenMR Benelux for all the special touches they added to running such a fantastic event. Their event and speaker registration forms, communications with attendees, accessibility and safety considerations, packman rule, and the delicious brain cookies for speakers really made the event shine.
Brain cookies and a handwritten thank you note for all the speakers from the organising committee of OpenMR Benelux made the train home at 6am much easier! -- tweet from kirstie_j
Love your Code
Kirstie also gave a talk at the Love Your Code event under the title The Turing Way: Reproducible, Inclusive, Collaborative Data Science. This event was organised by the UK Data Service and Office for National Statistics. What a fun way to spend Valentine's Day! 💞 💕 💖
Software Carpentry at the Turing
Picture by Yini He
Malvika Sharan and Joni Pelham delivered a Software Carpentry Workshop at The Turing Institute with the help of Louise Bowler, Kasra Hosseini, Jack Roberts, James Geddes and Nick Barlow. This workshop was organised by James Robinson and Mishka Nemes and covered introductory lessons from Python, Unix and git/version control. See the workshop page for details.
Impressions on the world wide web
Tweets by ADR UK, Louise Corti, Fiona Grimm and Ross Markello.
We were delighted to be acknowledged in this fantastic blog post from The Health Foundation: "Towards open health analytics: our guide to sharing code safely on GitHub". Thank you Fiona Grimm Karen Hodgson and Sarah Deeny of the Foundation's Data Analytics team.
As a team, we are lucky to stand on the shoulders of open data science giants. What we've achieved so far has only been possible because we can access an incredible range of open-source tools and the support of individuals and communities, who have done lots of hard work already. We owe much of our progress to resources and advice from the NHS-R community, the Turing Way and the wider open data science community on Twitter and Stack Overflow.
Connect with us!
We love hearing about how you're using The Turing Way. Stay in touch through one of the many different pathways below!
- About the project
- The Turing Way book
- GitHub repository
- Gitter chat room
- YouTube Videos
- Twitter account
- Hashtag #TuringWay
You are welcome to contribute content for the next newsletter by emailing Malvika Sharan or adding links to your updates at this issue: #832.
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