Also, huge thanks to Jared Hawkins<\/a> for leading Collaborate<\/a>‘s first ever Weekend Challenge<\/a>, on his project<\/a> to trace epidemics via social media data. Looking forward to what people come up with!<\/p>\n Finally, many thanks to Ben Marwick<\/a> and the eScience Institute<\/a> at the University of Washington for organizing the fourth live Software Carpentry Instructor Training – we always learn a ton every time we host one of these, many thanks for organizing & giving us the opportunity.<\/p>\n This weekend is Collaborate’s first ever Weekend Challenge<\/a>! You’re invited to hack on open Twitter data to explore ideas on how to track and visualize the spread of epidemics via social media. This is a great chance for beginners to get their feet wet with a simple node.js app, explore the geoJSON data spec and the Google Maps API, and get their hands dirty with basic strategies for large databases – and if you can’t make it this weekend, jump into the project on Collaborate<\/a> anytime!<\/p>\n Also this week was Kaitlin Thaney<\/a>‘s keynote at WSSPE<\/a>, on the system design and societal considerations associated with sustainable scientific discovery in a distributed, open fashion. You can check out papers, abstracts and recordings from the conference here<\/a> – as always, we’d love to hear your feedback!<\/p>\n SWC Instructor Training at the University of Washington, courtesy the eScience Institute.<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n Bill Mills<\/a> co-taught Instructor Training at the University of Washington (as hosted by the eScience Institute<\/a>) along with Greg Wilson<\/a>, Tracy Teal<\/a> and Warren Code<\/a> – this was a fine workshop with tons of new ideas surfaced on how to help students make the leap to being instructors. Bill will be updating our Instructor Training course material<\/a> with lessons learned shortly, and continuing to develop this offering in anticipation of the Research Bazaar<\/a>‘s Instructor Training & SWC events at their conference<\/a> early next year.<\/p>\n This week was also our November community call – check out the notes<\/a> if you missed it! This month was brought to us by three fine astronomy professionals: Demitri Muna<\/a> told us about recent plans to make astronomy data more open and usable via Trillian<\/a> and the Dat project<\/a>, in his plan to aggregate data across experiments by section of the sky; Jake Vanderplas<\/a> showcased the eScience Institute<\/a>‘s project to learn from the startup world and build a project incubator for novel scientific endeavors<\/a>; and Lucianne Walkowicz<\/span><\/a> connected us with the Adler Planetarium<\/a>‘s efforts to In & Around the Lab<\/h2>\n
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