Re: [TOS] A project and tool for teaching open source

[Sebastian Benthall]

At risk of spamming, I thought it might be good to link to a few of the
notebooks, to give a sense of what kinds of analysis are possible:

https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/blob/master/examples/Analyze%20Senders.ipynb
https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/blob/master/examples/Cohort%20Visualization.ipynb
https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/blob/master/examples/name-and-gender/Analyze%20Senders%20-%20Name%20and%20Gender.ipynb
https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/blob/master/examples/Show%20Interaction%20Graph.ipynb

The sky is the limit, of course :)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:43 PM, Sebastian Benthall 
wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I wanted to mention a project I've been working on with some other folks
> that's designed to teach open source in a particulary reflexive way.
>
> The project is called BigBang:
>
> https://github.com/datactive/bigbang
>
> The gist of it is that it has:
>  - tools for ingesting data from other open source projects (mailing
> lists, repository data, one day issue tracker data)
>  - library methods for scientifically analyzing that data
>  - examples of scientific analysis in Jupyter notebooks
>
> I've done some pilot trainings with undergrad research assistants, who
> have built their own Jupyter notebooks to study open collaboration, often
> examining the very communities who built the software the project depends
> on.
>
> Lately the BigBang community has been led in a different direction: In a
> couple weeks they will be at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
> meeting in London and using it at the hackathon there to analyze the IETF
> mailing list history.
>
> This is an open call to participation if anybody is interested in adapting
> this project for their own teaching. I'm happy to field any questions about
> it.
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
> Seb
>
>
> Sebastian Benthall
> Research Fellow, Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech
>
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[TOS] A project and tool for teaching open source

[Sebastian Benthall]

Hello list,

I wanted to mention a project I've been working on with some other folks
that's designed to teach open source in a particulary reflexive way.

The project is called BigBang:

https://github.com/datactive/bigbang

The gist of it is that it has:
 - tools for ingesting data from other open source projects (mailing lists,
repository data, one day issue tracker data)
 - library methods for scientifically analyzing that data
 - examples of scientific analysis in Jupyter notebooks

I've done some pilot trainings with undergrad research assistants, who have
built their own Jupyter notebooks to study open collaboration, often
examining the very communities who built the software the project depends
on.

Lately the BigBang community has been led in a different direction: In a
couple weeks they will be at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
meeting in London and using it at the hackathon there to analyze the IETF
mailing list history.

This is an open call to participation if anybody is interested in adapting
this project for their own teaching. I'm happy to field any questions about
it.

Thanks for listening!

Seb


Sebastian Benthall
Research Fellow, Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech
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