- Website: https://www.software.ac.uk/cw20
- Application form: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/register
- Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Date: 31 March - 2 April 2020
- The Turing Way: a "lightly-opinionated" guide to data science and research
- Malvika Sharan with Sarah Gibson and Jez Cope on behalf of The Turing Way Community
The Turing Way is an open source community-driven and collaboratively-developed book project on data science and research.
Launched and demo-ed at the Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop last year, the Turing Way aims to support researchers, educators, funders and journal editors in ensuring that reproducible data science is "too easy not to do".
Since its launch, The Turing Way has gained interest from a diverse set of community members working across different disciplines within data science research and training, who have contributed to the project repository through in-person contribution workshops (book dash events) and online co-working calls (collaboration cafes). Furthermore, the Turing Way team members have delivered workshops on GitHub, git, Jupyter Notebook, BinderHub, Binder, and basic programming to impart skills and confidence to empower new contributors, and thus, to sustain an open-source ecosystem.
Going forward, The Turing Way project will expand into a series of books, which, in addition to reproducibility, will capture the vast amounts of knowledge of data science practices in the areas of project design, communication and outreach, collaboration, and ethics.
In this proposed session, we will introduce the project in a short talk on The Turing Way followed by an interactive demonstrations of the existing and planned chapters that participants can use, share, develop or modify for their own research. All participants will leave the session knowing that "Every Little Helps" when making their work intentionally designed to be open and reproducible. The session facilitators will help participants in identifying their personal route of contribution to an open source project while improving The Turing Way handbook for future readers.
This was submitted as a proposal for 1 or 2, 40-minute demonstration session.