CommunityData:Resources

This page collects resources for Community Data Science Collective members.

Technical documentation and getting setup

 * CommunityData:Email — Information on email aliases and their management.
 * CommunityData:Hyak — Using the Hyak supercomputer system at UW for reserach.
 * CommunityData:Hyak setup — Getting an account and getting setup on Hyak.
 * CommunityData:Zotero — How to use our shared Zotero directory.
 * CommunityData:TeX — Installing/ Mako's LaTeX templates
 * CommunityData:Beamer — Installing/using Mako's beamer templates
 * CommunityData:Build papers — Both the TeX and Beamer templates above come along with a Makefile that makes some assumptions about your workflow. Learn about that here.
 * CommunityData:Git — Getting set up on the git server
 * CommunityData:Backups (nada) — Details on what is, and what isn't, backed up from nada.
 * CommunityData:Knitr — Using Knitr with Tex to build graphs, tables, insert and format numbers in tex documents.
 * CommunityData:Tmux — Using tmux (terminal multiplexer) to keep a persistent session on a server.
 * CommunityData:Exporting from Python to R
 * CommunityData:Embedding fonts in PDFs —  creates PDFs with fonts that are not embedded which, in turn, causes the ACM to bounce our papers back. This page describes how to fix it.

Non-technical resources

 * CDSC Logos — Logo with name/text (SVG, PDF); Logo without name/text (SVG, PDF)
 * Stickers:
 * Custom laptop sticker from skinit.
 * Regular logo sticker from websticker.
 * CommunityData:Advice on writing a background section to an academic paper — Once upon a time, Mako and Aaron submitted a paper with a mediocre introduction to a journal. Mac Parks, the editor of that journal at the time, set us straight with some very clear pointers. Save yourself the trouble and learn to follow these today!

Scratch setup documentation

 * CommunityData:IRB training for Scratch Research at UW

Chat on IRC
A number of us are idling in #communitydata on OFTC (irc.oftc.net). If you're not familiar with IRC, ask someone else in the group and they can try to get you started.