Reproducible Quantitative Methods
Lesson 11
Topics and Resources
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More on Citizen science approaches
I will be away again on Tuesday the 28th, but I've found a fascinating lecture by Dr. Alexandra Swanson that you can watch instead of class. We'll reconvene on Thursday the 30th, when we'll have a special guest speaker.
Crowdsourcing methods are a great way to bring people in to our research. One of the best-established citizen science platforms is Zooniverse, where citizen scientists work together with researchers to classify images, historical records, and videos- enabling huge amounts of data to be processed with greater accuracy, and in a fraction of the time of conventional methods. In lieu of Tuesday class, please watch this video:
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Special Guest: Auriel Fournier
Dr. Auriel Fournier is a recent graduate of the University of Arkansas, where she studied marshbird migration, and will be joining Mississippi State for a postdoc in about a week(!). She's a Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry instructor, a famous member of the science twitterati, and an all around awesome person. Auriel will be chatting with us on March 30 about the challenges and triumphs of open science through her career.
In case you missed it, here's our chat with Auriel:
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Supported work period
Push forward on your project! Start making journal quality figures, tables. Once you’ve done the analysis and generated the figures, print them all out on paper, and we'll workshop writing figure captions, and then arranging figures and tables into a story arc that they want the manuscript to take. Having the figures in front of you on paper is really helpful for this.
Start writing sections of the paper, and we can edit each other's work as we go along. Let me know if you've got a major section written, and I'll do my best to edit as much as I can during my travels!
Exercises
- Project workshop time
- Writing review
As described in topics section.
As described in topics section.
Discussion
No discussion this week
No discussion this week- use this time to really build momentum on the project ahead of the last few weeks of classes.