The Turing Way Bookdash
Author: Esther Plomp
I attended the second Turing Way book dash event (London, 21 and 22 February), which may need some explaining:
- The Turing Way is a ‘lightly opinionated’ online guide to reproducible data science. The book is collaboratively written using GitHub and Jupyter book, an effort led by Kirstie Whitaker.
- A book dash is a short event (1-2 days) where people come together to work on a book. The name book dash derives from a book sprint, where the time taken is longer than a dash (3-5 days).
By attending the Turing Way Book dash I got to contribute to this amazing resource, I met a lot of great people that are part of the Turing Way community, and I gained more confidence in working collaboratively using GitHub (and made my first pull request!).
Together with my partner in credit-crime, Frances Madden, we added a section about why you should have an ORCID, which was reviewed by Jade Pickering. This resulted in a drawing made by Scriberia.
Afterwards I contributed a data citation section and revised the Research Data Management chapter, adding in some of the examples we highlight at Delft. (These changes are still under review at the time of writing.)
It even got me back into cross-stitching, thanks to Sarah Gibson! (Stay tuned for a picture of my cross-stitched Binder logo.)
Exciting additions thanks to the book dash participants include:
- Guidance on how to document and share your software/code by Mateusz Kuzak and Frances Madden
- A version control chapter by Adina Wagner
- A new chapter on Research Compendia by Barbara Vreede and Heidi Seibold
- More information on software licenses was added by Carlos Martinez and Stefan Verhoeven
- Louise Bowler worked on a case study
- Several people, including Tony Yang, Anna Hadjitofi, worked on translating existing chapters
- Martina Vilas worked on upgrading the Jupyter Book
- Arielle Bennett-Lovell worked on a new chapter on how to successfully collaborate and GDPR related matters
- A bot to support first time contributions by Nathan Begbie
- An ethics chapter, thanks to Kesson Magid, Jade Pickering, and Nicolas Alessandroni
- Faruk Diblen and Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez worked on a Software Checklist chapter
- Bouwe Andela worked on Code quality chapter
- And many, many more contributions! I guess you should just have a look at the Turing Way to see all of it 😉
As you may conclude from this list, I got to meet and collaborate with amazing people during the book dash! I hope to continue to add contributions to the Turing Way through the bi-weekly Turing Way Collaboration Cafés. The next Café is on the fourth of March and starts at 16:00!
If you would like to contribute to the Turing Way please get in touch or visit their contributing guidelines to learn how to start.
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