CommunityData:Resources

This page collects resources for Community Data Science Collective members.

If you're new to the collective, check out the Introduction to CDSC Resources.

Non-Technical Resources

Schedule — Deadlines, events, and similar
CommunityData:Jargon — Jargon and Common Shorthand
CommunityData:Planning document — Details on producing Matsuzaki-style planning documents
CommunityData:Logos — Like our visual branding, not like λόγος. Although we should always make sure we're good in that department too. very clear pointers. Save yourself the trouble and learn to follow these today!
Community Data Science Lab (UW) — Directions to the lab space at UW. This is something you can share with visitors.
Community Data Science Lab (NU) Pandemic research plan — Pandemic research plan for CDSC NU created as part of Northwestern's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CommunityData:General examinations motivating questions — A set of questions borrowed and adapted from Jennifer Turns that are a useful ways to start preparing for general examinations.

CommunityData:Email — Information on email lists, email aliases and their management.
CommunityData:IRC — How to get set up on our chat system, IRC
CommunityData:Jitsi — Some etiquette/usability tips for Jitsi, our preferred video conference tool.
CommunityData:Blog — Writing/editing blogposts
CommunityData:Blog post schedule — What's up next?

CommunityData:Code — List of software projects maintained by the collective.
CommunityData:Exporting from Python to R
CommunityData:Git — Getting set up on the git server
CommunityData:Otter.ai — Audio-to-text transcription software
CommunityData:Taguette — Qualitative coding analysis software
CommunityData:Tmux — Using tmux (terminal multiplexer) to keep a persistent session on a server.
CommunityData:Zotero — How to use our shared Zotero directory.
CommunityData:Etherpad — We use Etherpad for collaborative real-time note-taking and such. This page has some information about that as well details about how to make sure your pad is backedup.

Stuff related to getting setup and/or troubleshooting things related to LaTeX and papers:

CommunityData:TeX — Installing our LaTeX templates
CommunityData:Beamer — Installing/using Mako's Beamer templates
CommunityData:Knitr — Using Knitr with Tex to build graphs, tables, insert and format numbers in tex documents.
CommunityData:Embedding fonts in PDFs — ggplot2 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.
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.

A few of us use HTML-based presentation. Information on that is here:

CommunityData:reveal.js — Using RMarkdown to create reveal.js HTML presentations

CommunityData:Compute Overview and Resource Matching -- What we have and what it's good for
CommunityData:Hyak — Using the Hyak supercomputer system at UW for research (several pages are linked from the top of that page)
CommunityData:Hyak_tutorial - Tutorial for new people to learn how to use Hyak.
CommunityData:Kibo — Getting started with the Kibo system at NU for research.
CommunityData:Northwestern VPN — Connecting to the Northwestern VPN
CommunityData:Backups (nada) — Details on what is, and what isn't, backed up from nada.

CommunityData:ORES - Using ORES with wikipedia data
CommunityData:Wikia data — Documents information about how to get and validate wikia dumps.

Project Pages:

CommunityData:Message Walls -- Documents information about how to get and validate wikia dumps.

Group meetups:

Other meetups:

CommunityData:Light events — The light in the lab at UW is funny. We have three fluorescent lights. On flipping the light switch, only two turn on. The third turns on eventually. We are studying this arcane phenomenon.

CommunityData:GameIDs — A directory containing the game IDs for CDSC members to connect with each other across various gaming platforms.