Hi Dav, Just thinking about other things that I've recently seen that may be related and of interest to you...
There are a number of data science competition platforms that provide datasets and real problems and allow one to think about how the data can be used to solve a problem. The challenges vary in difficulty so maybe you'd find something there that is appropriate for your students. An example is Zindi Africa - https://zindi.africa/. Here is a link to some interesting platforms - https://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/07/guide-data-science-good.html. There are also a variety of Data Science for Social Good initiatives available on the web where projects have been described, data is available, etc. This repo may be of interest - https://github.com/dssg. If you search 'Data Science for Social Good' on the web you might find groups/projects in your area. I know there are people in the Carpentries community who have been involved in such initiatives and you may get more info if you ask specifically about that or if you look through the mailing list archives. Kind regards, Anelda On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 3:57 PM Dav Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > At the risk of sending content free email to the list... That sounds > awesome! (I did my dissertation in climate change communication) > > I'd love to see event curricula if you have links. > > Best, > D > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 1:11 AM Anelda van der Walt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Dav, >> >> I'm copying Margareth Gfrerer and Mesfin Diro, Carpentries colleagues >> from Ethiopia. They have been running R hackathons with the aim of helping >> researchers and students think about how they can use open data to >> facilitate data driven decision making around topics where emotion often >> plays a big role in decision making. >> >> They have been using worldbank data as far as I remember. >> https://data.worldbank.org/. There are some amazing datasets. >> >> Worldbank data is in general available under CC-BY 4.0 with some >> additional conditions (https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use). >> The licensing terms are very clear, which makes it easy to use and to tell >> others how they can use it. One can also access data via an API or via the >> website, so it is possible to teach students about the use of APIs to >> access data too if that is the level which you're aiming for. >> >> Margareth and Mesfin may be able to answer more questions if you have any. >> >> Hope this is helpful. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Anelda >> >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:59 PM Dav Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I'm putting together a demo project that I'm tentatively basing on >>> gapminder plus the stack overflow developer survey. A central goal is to >>> have datasets of different sizes to motivate cherry picking data from a >>> larger dataset as-needed (as one might do with specialized git lfs commands >>> or git annex). >>> >>> So I'm trying to figure out what aspects of gapminder are interesting >>> and redistributable. I know we have the following data in the R gapminder >>> lesson (and also for the corresponding python lesson): >>> >>> >>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swcarpentry/r-novice-gapminder/gh-pages/_episodes_rmd/data/gapminder_data.csv >>> >>> What's the license on this data? Is it freely redistributable? Does >>> anyone know if there's an easy to navigate source for navigating the libre >>> data from https://www.gapminder.org/data/ ? >>> >>> Relatedly, if someone has a suggestion for data that's good for helping >>> students generate and answer their own questions, I'd love to hear it! >>> >>> Best, >>> Dav >>> >> *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T98ea05ec05490a70-M40024653033d11adb44ff1ff> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T98ea05ec05490a70-M6bdd1a8be6a0d9cc766c083d Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
