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Study Group Planner #19

Closed tomhohenstein closed 8 years ago

tomhohenstein commented 9 years ago

We are working on planning sessions for the remainder of this fall and for next spring. The agenda is still very much in draft form, so any input is very much appreciated.

Spring 2016 (draft)

Week of Date Session Trainer
Jan. 11 N/A Winter Break N/A
Jan. 18 Jan 21 Hacky Hour - BU Pub Tom
Jan. 25 Jan 27 Intro to GitHub Alexey
Feb. 1 Feb 4 (?) Using Jupyter Mark
Feb. 8 Feb 11 Git Advanced Alexey
Feb. 15 Feb 18 Vagrant Chris
Feb. 22 Feb 25 Using Jekyll for Publishing Tom
Feb. 29 Mar 3 Docker Chris
Mar. 7 N/A Spring Break - No Session
Mar. 14 Mar 17 Reveal.js Chris
Mar. 21 Mar 24 R Shiny istfer
Mar. 28 Mar 31 Julia Will
Apr. 4 Apr 7 Coworking Session Tom
Apr. 11 Apr 14 OPEN
Apr. 18 Apr 21 Coworking Session - Lightning Talk Prep & Assessment Tom
Apr. 25 Apr 28 Lightning Talk Session Tom (coordinate)
May 1 May 5 Hacky Hour
ceholden commented 9 years ago

The rest of this year looks well booked up (yay!) and I agree that we should repeat some of our content in the new year. Hoping we'll have some new faces joining the familiar ones.

As for additional content, I'd like to propose:

  1. Work along for reveal.js HTML based slides
    • I quite like reveal.js since it makes it very quick to create a presentation that looks reasonably good. There isn't a lot of control on styling, which means you're pretty much forced into concise slides that favor images over text
    • You can write HTML to make the slides, but I'd also show how to write the slides in Markdown and then use pandoc to convert them to reveal.js HTML or other formats (Beamer, other HTML slide formats, etc.)
  2. Work along for programatically building virtual machine (VM) images to encapsulate your software for distribution or testing using Vagrant
    • I've found it very useful to distribute VMs that contain some of my software with large lists of dependencies, especially for Windows users who don't have access to or know how to setup a compiler. I need to learn it anyway, so I might as well make a lesson on it
  3. Work along demonstrating the utility of Makefiles for data processing
    • Like science? You should like reproducible research. Makefiles provide a nice, albeit initially frustrating due to syntax, way of completely documenting the steps in a data analysis workflow
    • Why not just let Mike Bostock speak for me...
    • I've also recently stumbled upon a "Makefile for data" program called Drake
      • Looks like it has lesson confusing syntax!
      • Can generate workflow dependency graphs
      • See their blog post
tomhohenstein commented 9 years ago

@ceholden great ideas! do you have a preference for dates? We could do the reveal.js session after the git advanced and the Vagrant after the break. Thoughts?

ceholden commented 8 years ago

@tomhohenstein I don't have any plans for the dates scheduled right now, so put me where ever and I'll speak up if I need to reschedule? There's some possible work related travel currently up in the air for the spring...

I also want to add another proposed lesson -- Makefiles for data

tomhohenstein commented 8 years ago

semester is almost over and each session was added in a respective issues - closing issue