We are happy to announce the 16th PyData Cambridge meetup!

Many thanks to Raspberry Pi, who host the group.

!! For the tutorial you will need a laptop with internet access and a GitHub account !!

Agenda

18:45 - Doors open
19:00 - Introduction
19:10 - "Reproducible Research: An Introduction to The Turing Way and Binder" (talk) by Dr Sarah Gibson
19:55 - Interval / snacks provided
20:15 - " From Zero to Binder!" (interactive tutorial) by Dr Sarah Gibson
21:00 - End (Pub TBA)

Code of Conduct

PyData is dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. ( http://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html ) To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (leah@numfocus.org) or organizers.

Talks

Title: Reproducible Research: An Introduction to The Turing Way and Binder
Speaker: Dr Sarah Gibson, The Alan Turing Institute

Abstract:

Reproducible research is necessary to ensure that scientific work can be trusted. Funders and stakeholders are beginning to require that publications and research outreach include access to the underlying data and analysis code. The goal is to ensure that all results can be independently verified and built upon in future work. This is sometimes easier said than done! Sharing these research outputs means understanding data management, library sciences, software development, and continuous integration techniques. The Turing Way is a handbook to support research professionals, stakeholders, students and their supervisors, and funders in ensuring that reproducible research is “too easy not to do”. It includes training material on version control, analysis testing, and open and transparent communication with future users. This project is openly developed and any and all questions, comments and recommendations are welcome at our GitHub repository: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way.

One tool The Turing Way recommends using is Project Binder (https://jupyter.org/binder), the free and public version of which is hosted at https://mybinder.org. This project uses openly developed tools to transform a static GitHub repository, containing Jupyter Notebooks and scripts written in Python, R, Julia and other languages, into an interactive computational environment hosted in the cloud. This environment can then be shared with anyone, anywhere via a single, clickable URL so that the analysis code and dataset can be interactively explored without the need for the user to install the software. In this talk and hands-on tutorial, Sarah will introduce The Turing Way and Binder then walk the attendees through their first Binder-ready repository on GitHub. The tutorial materials are available here: https://bit.ly/zero-to-binder-tutorial and are suitable for all programming levels.

Requirements:
Laptop
Internet access
A GitHub account (if you don’t already have one, please sign up here: https://github.com/join)

Many thanks to our sponsors: ARM, Enthought, fetch.ai, Illumina, NumFOCUS and Raspberry Pi.