Week 3 - Open tools

For this week you read Lowndes et al. (2017) and Marwick, Boettiger, and Mullen (2018) about open tools.

Our discussion today will follow the Hatful of Quotes format (Brookfield and Preskill 2016). Here’s how it works.

  1. I’ve printed salient quotes from both papers on slips of paper and put them in a “hat”.
  2. You’ll randomly draw a quote and take two minutes to think about it on your own. How does the quote relate to the rest of the paper? The other paper? The other content in this course? Your own experiences as a scientist?
  3. We hold a group conversation. When it’s your turn to speak, read your quote and share your thoughts. If your quote has already been read, you can affirm, build on, or contradict earlier comments (respectfully).

References

Brookfield, Stephen D, and Stephen Preskill. 2016. The Discussion Book. London, England: Jossey-Bass.
Lowndes, Julia S. Stewart, Benjamin D. Best, Courtney Scarborough, Jamie C. Afflerbach, Melanie R. Frazier, Casey C. O’Hara, Ning Jiang, and Benjamin S. Halpern. 2017. “Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (6). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0160.
Marwick, Ben, Carl Boettiger, and Lincoln Mullen. 2018. “Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly Using R (and Friends).” The American Statistician 72 (1): 80–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375986.