Reproducible and open research practices

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[ UUID ] fa9ba9ff-d05f-408f-9a75-fe4ba8e0e36e

[ Session Name ] Reproducible and open research practices
[ Primary Space ] Open Innovation

[ Submitter's Name ] Joel Ostblom
[ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] University of Toronto Coders
[ Submitter's Github ] @joelostblom

What will happen in your session?

We are a MozillaScience StudentGroup aiming to make programming skills and open collaboration more prevalent among students interested in academic research. As part of this mandate, we have introduced a 4th year undergraduate course, where we use R and Git/GitHub to teach reproducible methods and open collaborations skills. The original version of this course was developed by MozillaScience PostdoctoralFellow Christie Bahlai and, after speaking with Dr. Bahlai, we have have redesigned the syllabus to fit our implementation.

This MozFest session would include a presentation of how this course came about, its content, the challenges we faced when bringing this course to life and those we are facing currently as we will be teaching this course for the first time during fall-2017.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Getting people excited about the practices of reproducible, open science and the importance of teaching these subjects to research interested students.

We could also include a sample from one of the lectures, potentially with a code along in R on a shared instance, with the goal of people gaining some basic familiarity with the lecture materials and a practical appreciation of what we teach.

Time needed

less than 60 mins

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[kaodro]

Hi @joelostblom , my name is Kasia and I work on Mozilla’s Internet Health Report. At Mozfest we will be present with an “Internet Research Hub” #618 (last comment) - an easy-going, cozy space for discussions and networking both with us about Internet Health and among researchers themselves.

We also invite anyone who does work in an Internet research field to sign up and present their work at a couple of open display tables we will have in the hub. We will promote these sessions throughout the festival. You can do it spontaneously with pen and paper on site or if you would like to save a spot beforehand, drop me an email at kasia@mozillafoundation.org with a short description of the session.

In any case, if you are planning to attend Mozfest, I would like to invite you to pass by the hub and say hi. We will start with an informal "Research and coffee grinder” get-together at the beginning of the festival where people can get to know each other. Space and exact schedule for the Hub are still being decided and I will update you once we know the details. Hope to see you there!