05 Call Digest

[stefaniebutland]

Hello @Openscapes/2024-epa-cohort !

Thank you all for our final session! It was wonderful to see the real progress you made in the short time of the Cohort. A huge thank you to the Mentors, @farnazn @jhollist @mgm-cincy-epa @ghaglerepa. This is just the beginning! Below is a brief digest of Call 5.

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Digest: Cohort Call 05 [ 2024-epa ]

Openscapes_CohortCalls [ 2024-epa ] Cohort Folder - contains agendas, recordings, pathways
https://openscapes.github.io/2024-epa/- cohort webpage

Goals: People shared their Pathways and we discussed next steps.

Pathways and Work in Progress (Pathway folder)
Detailed discussion notes and tips in the Agenda doc.

Openscapes Team (slides). Stefanie shared how we use the Kyber R package to automate some processes we need to repeat many times, like creating Cohort Call Agendas. She noted the impact of participating in open communities on getting critical R help to learn to make Openscapes Completion Certificates for everyone.

Lexi Nelson, Tech lead for Web-ICE (Web-based Interspecies Correlation Estimation) and coral/sunscreen team. (OpenscapesPathway_LexiN.xlsx) Lexi screenshared her new RMarkdown doc that is helping with reproducibility. It’s a living doc that everyone can edit and saves ppl from sending and waiting for emails for the most recent versions of reports. She then screenshared her workflow in R to tidy EcoTOX data. Lexi had been concatenating in Excel which was clunky, with empty cells, lots of sorting and highlighting with colors. Now she can do this with 2 dozen lines of code. From taking hours on 300 columns, 50 of which were empty, to fast wrangling to tidy data! Jeff noted good practice in Lexi’s code – not overwriting object names – will save headaches later. Great tips in the Agenda doc.

COMET Team - Energy Systems Model for Cities with Ozge Kaplan, Joyce Kim (other members away) (OpenscapesPathway_OzgeK.xlsx) Reproducibility is their main concern as team gets bigger. They would like to implement Rmarkdown especially for updating charts when data changes.

Narragansett Bay Time Series Data Team, Jason Grear, Jim Hagy (other members out on boats collecting the data!). Jason raised the challenge of how to manage data for a collaboration with the idea of a Seaside Chat to discuss “what are we striving for together?” Jim raised the challenge that working collaboratively on code is an adjustment for everyone, and a rich discussion followed, with agreement that this is a culture issue as much as a tech issue.

Demo: Quarto – Tutorial for Authoring Manuscripts. The Openscapes Team screenshared a walkthrough of using a Quarto template to author manuscripts in RStudio, and the familiarity of RStudio’s Visual Editor – like using Word. Jim Hagy shared how to export / access Endnote references to use in a Quarto manuscript.

A few lines from shared notes in the Agenda doc

• We’re at beginning of change in skill sets and culture
• How to work collaboratively on code is an adjustment for everyone
  • this is a culture issue as much as a tech issue
• Create more opportunities for exchanging ideas and learning from each other
• I’m curious about whether CEMM should consider raising the need for more Openscapes-style cohorts conducted in other parts of ORD (or across ORD) or whether there are other follow-on support needs for this cohort - open to feedback/thoughts on this at any point.
• The OneDrive and branches overwriting is something I hadn’t heard before

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