Datalad + Binder : create reproducible interactive demos to explore your data

Project Description

While preparing the data viz workshop for openMR 2021 we had to figure out how to download an MRI dataset into a binder (a virtual machine running in the cloud) to create an online interactive demo to explore data.

This was done by using Datalad a software that allows you version control your data (in brief: Datalad is to data what Git is to code).

Both the binder team and datalad team seem interested to create an template / demo to show how to do that.

So if anyone is interested to help create that demo and learn a bit about Binder and Datallad along the way.

Skills required to participate

What different types of people could contribute?

Coding skills

no coding sills required

software specific sills

Datalad - beginner or less Binder - beginner or less Jupyter book - beginner or less

GIT / GITHUB skills required

GIT - 2 - comfortable working with branches and can do a pull request on another repository

Integration

This would provide an easy way for researchers and teachers to create Binder based demos that easily integrate data from all the datasets that datalad provides access to.

Preparation material

Might be good (but not necesary) to have a look at:

the intro and chapter 1 of the datalad handbook: http://handbook.datalad.org/en/latest/
the tutorials for Binder: https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/index.html

Link to your GitHub repo

Not an official repo yet but most of the "hard" content is already in there. It "just" needs to be turned into a stand alone repository with documentation.

https://github.com/OpenMRBenelux/openmr2021-dataviz-workshop-python

Communication

datalad-binder channel in the Discord of openMR2021

OpenMRBenelux / openmrb2021-hackathon

Create demo + template repository to use datalad in a binder #6