CommunityData:Resources: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:33, 25 May 2023

This page collects resources for Community Data Science Collective members.

Schedule — Deadlines, events, and similar
CommunityData:Workshop — Weekly workshop sessions for sharing work and getting feedback
CommunityData:Jargon — Jargon and Common Shorthand
CommunityData:Planning document — Details on producing Matsuzaki-style planning documents
CommunityData:Research participant compensation — Notes on procedures related to human subjects compensation (e.g. for interview studies)
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:Prospective students — Some materials we have provided to prospective students and used in organizing Q&A events.
CommunityData:Reimbursements (UW) — Information on the (rather complicated!) process for getting reimbursed at UW

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 and social media — Writing/editing blogposts, tweets, and social media
CommunityData:Blog post schedule — What's up next?
CommunityData:Wiki — this very wiki that you're readings things on RIGHT NOW

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.
CommunityData:MySQL How to use MySQL databases on Kibo.

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

CommunityData:TeX — Installing our LaTeX templates
CommunityData:TeX#Using the poster template — a little bit of detail on how to find/use the poster template
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.
CommunityData:LaTeX to Word — Some journals require submissions in Word format. Here are some options for doing that.
CommunityData:LaTex Diff — For an R+R, it's often helpful to create a PDF that shows the changes made. Here's one way to do that.

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:MySQL — Creating MySQL databases on Kibo
CommunityData:Northwestern VPN — Connecting to the Northwestern VPN
CommunityData:Backups (nada) — Details on what is, and what isn't, backed up from nada.
CommunityData:When a service is down

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.

CommunityData:Group Tasks - A collection of different tasks that benefit the group.
CommunityData:Roles - A page describing the current membership roles and expectations around them.

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 * [[CommunityData:General examinations motivating questions]] — A set of questions borrowed and adapted from [https://www.hcde.washington.edu/turns Jennifer Turns] that are a useful ways to start preparing for general examinations.
 * [[CommunityData:Prospective students]] — Some materials we have provided to prospective students and used in organizing Q&A events.
+* [[CommunityData:Reimbursements (UW)]] — Information on the (rather complicated!) process for getting reimbursed at UW
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